Stories by Susan Schneider

Susan Schneider is a professor of philosophy and cognitive science at the University of Connecticut, a researcher at YHouse, Inc., in New York, a member of the Ethics and Technology Group at Yale University and a visiting member at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. Her books include The Language of Thought, Science Fiction and Philosophy, and The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness (with Max Velmans). For more of her work see: SchneiderWebsite.com.

Cognition

Spacetime Emergence, Panpsychism and the Nature of Consciousness

How does experience, which is so intimately tied to our perception of time and space, arise from timeless, non-spatial ingredients?

August 6, 2018 — Susan Schneider

Computing

Is Anyone Home? A Way to Find Out If AI Has Become Self-Aware

It’s not easy, but a newly proposed test might be able to detect consciousness in a machine

July 19, 2017 — Susan Schneider and Edwin Turner