I’m an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Florida Atlantic University (FAU) and Program Director for the Center for the Future Mind.
My research focuses on the intersection of metaphysics, philosophy of mind/consciousness, philosophy of science, philosophy of information/computation, and epistemology.
My work focuses on four main research topics and areas, all of which I see as related to a much larger project which composes most of the research going into my first book.
The book is in its early stages and is tentatively titled - “Understanding Our Information-Theoretic Existence”.
The book is a synthesis of my work on the metaphysics of mind/consciousness, work on the philosophy of AI/AGI, and more recent thinking on the nature and existence of digital objects/worlds. My hope is that the novel information-theoretic neutral monism I’ve been developing offers a more unifying and informative picture of the nature of reality and our place in it.
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Information-theoretic neutral monism and the hard problem of consciousness
We often hear the concept of “information” used across various levels of organization in our natural sciences and varying levels of complexity. What if the age-old argument about the relationship between mind-matter, body-mind, physical-phenomenal, material-mental, can be resolved by rather looking for a more “common ancestor”? In this podcast with Parker Settecase, I explore this question among other topics.
Machine Intelligence and the Future of Knowledge
In a world where the increasing prevalence of artificial intelligence and rising sophistication, what are the epistemic implications of a world where not only humans but machines produce knowledge?