Beyond our Consciousness: Aliens, Animals, Infants, & AI | Passos, Montemayor, Mindt

YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_YMcEPfqCMSponsors: - Manscaped: Get 20% Off and Free Shipping with the code [TOE] at Manscaped.com. - Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/TOE for 20% offClaudia Passos is an Assistant Professor of Bioethics at NYU studying infant consciousness, Garrett Mindt is a professor of philosophy at Florida Atlantic University focused on novel information-theoretic metaphysics, and Carlos Montemayor is a professor of philosophy whose research focuses on the intersection between philosophy of mind, epistemology and cognitive science.This episode has been released early in an ad-free audio version for TOE members at http://theoriesofeverything.org.- *New* TOE Website (early access to episodes): https://theoriesofeverything.org/- Patreon: https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal- Crypto: https://tinyurl.com/cryptoTOE- PayPal: https://tinyurl.com/paypalTOE- Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurt- Discord Invite: https://discord.com/invite/kBcnfNVwqs- iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast...- Pandora: https://pdora.co/33b9lfP- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4gL14b9...- Subreddit r/TheoriesOfEverything: https://reddit.com/r/theoriesofeveryt...TIMESTAMPS:00:00:00 Introduction00:03:56 How aware are infants?00:08:36 Correlates of consciousness00:11:16 Trauma in infants00:17:00 Traditional definitions of consciousness00:22:05 Animal consciousness00:26:05 Phenomenal consciousness00:35:37 “You can't be intelligent if you are not autonomous”00:37:00 Asymmetric moral considerations00:41:00 Agency needs vulnerability to work00:43:20 The borders between biology and machine00:46:00 Building "mini brains"!00:58:40 Behavioral markers of consciousness01:00:10 Should AI be given the same ethical consideration as our human children?01:05:16 Do infants lack moral standing?01:08:14 Is analogue consciousness relevant?01:14:06 What do we mean by “autonomy”?01:19:00 Outro