Alva Noë

Jan 20, 2025 | flipboard.com | Jose Muñoz |José Muñoz |Javier Bernácer |Alva Noë |Evan Thompson

10 hours agoDuring his first day in office, President Donald Trump revoked a 2023 executive order signed by former President Joe Biden that sought to reduce the potential risks AI poses to consumers, workers, and national security. Biden’s executive order directed the Commerce Department’s National Institute of …

Oct 25, 2024 | qoshe.com | Alva Noë

Computers don’t actually do anything. They don’t write, or play; they don’t even compute. Which doesn’t mean we can’t play with computers, or use them to invent, or make, or problem-solve. The new AI is unexpectedly reshaping ways of working and making, in the arts and sciences, in industry, and in warfare. We need to come to terms with the transformative promise and dangers of this new tech. But it ought to be possible to do so without succumbing to bogus claims about machine minds.

Feb 5, 2024 | bigthink.com | Alva Noë

Alva Noë: Consider this: We are conscious of both more, and less, than affects our nervous system. Let me give you an example: I look at a tomato. It's sitting there on the counter in front of me. It's red and bulgy and three-dimensional, and I experience all that. I experience all that, visually. I have a sense, even visually, of the back of the tomato- Not that I can see the back of the tomato, it's out of view- and yet, it's part of my experience of the tomato, that it has a back.

Jul 18, 2023 | wsj.com | Alva Noë

Baseball is a sport in hiding. The media celebrates the big hit, the virtuosic defensive play and the strikeout, but so much of the real action comes between all that. What pitch should we throw, now, to this hitter? It depends on who the hitter is but also on the pitcher’s arsenal, the count, the score and the situation on the bases. Not to mention whether the pitcher is tired or has his best stuff.

Jun 6, 2023 | harpers.org | Alva Noë

From The Entanglement, which was published last month by Princeton University Press. When she dances, a young child already moves her body with a sensitivity to what is expected of her. Perhaps she has seen videos of Billie Eilish or Taylor Swift; she has danced with her mom; she has a bank of personalities and images that supply her with a sense of what feels right.