The Indeterminate Bit

A conceptual and futuristic digital artwork representing AI Consciousness.

The Indeterminate Bit is a series of essays and short articles that traverse topics from AI and technology to biology, the environment, neuroscience, and philosophy and explores the uncertain space where science and theory meet questions of consciousness, existence, and meaning.

Essays & Articles

  • A conceptual and futuristic digital artwork representing AI Consciousness.
    Artificial Intelligence and the Philosophical Zombie
    by Susanne Coates
    The emergence of large language models (LLMs) and other advanced machine learning systems has revived long standing philosophical debates concerning the nature of consciousness, agency, and subjective experience. One particularly salient concept is that of the philosophical zombie
  • child sitting on a pile of computers daydreaming the phrase, "I believe that I think therefor I think that I am"
    The Spectrum of Consciousness
    by Susanne Coates
    This article explores the concept of consciousness as a spectrum encompassing various forms of life and potentially extending to artificial intelligence (AI). Consciousness is considered not as a unique human trait but as a continuum of cognitive complexity observable across all species.