Category: Essay

  • AI-Driven Storytelling and Narrative Engineering

    AI-Driven Storytelling and Narrative Engineering

    In 2023, a science fiction story generated almost entirely by AI won second prize in a Chinese provincial competition—only one or two of the six judges recognised its non-human origins. The same year, AI-illustrated children’s books flooded self-publishing platforms, and Hollywood writers walked out in part over fears that studios would use large language models…

  • Artificial Intelligence and the Philosophical Zombie

    Artificial Intelligence and the Philosophical Zombie

    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

  • The Spectrum of Consciousness

    The Spectrum of Consciousness

    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.