Mathematician and Theoretical Computer Scientist (#mathematics, #TCS) interested in #Consciousness and #NeuroAI (#Neuroscience, #AI). Distinguished Career Prof of CS at CMU, Emerita. President, Assoc for MathConscSci (AMCS) (https://amcs-community.org)
Lenore Blum
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Me at the beach in Oulu, Finland today at WAFR 2026
This is one of those "why didn't I think of that?" papers. Very important direction for the scientific study of consciousness and to consider the question currently on many folks' minds, "Are AI's conscious (or will they be) and how can we tell?"
Hegseth Strikes Female and Black Navy Officers From Promotion List www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/u...
What a novel idea @mariakasmirli.com ! Curious to hear more about philosophical counseling. Best wishes going forward.
Any way to get a pdf of Francisco Varela and Jonathan Shear's 1999 paper, "First-person methodologies: What, why, how?"
The once revered @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy has under current leadership totally embraced the dumbing down of America.
CBS News Fires Scott Pelley of β60 Minutesβ www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/b...
You can still submit an abstract for Models of Consciousness 7 #MoC7 (12-16 October 2026) π
...Prabhakar Raghavan, Adam Kalai), theoretical guarantees on learnability in today's systems & the role of theory going forward (Maria-Florina Balcan, Tom Mitchell, @aaroth.bsky.social), AI consciousness @lenoreblum.bsky.social & Manuel Blum), and many more!
Happy birthday Avrim Blum!
Schedule now available! β Looks like three exciting days ahead! π
I'm especially looking forward to our panel discussion sessions on Monday and Wednesday evening! π Join us if you like!
Schedule: www.uni-bamberg.de/en/bamxi/res...
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