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Human Brain Project, Neuroethics , , , February 3, 2022

Calling all professionals working with Disorders of Consciousness!

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As part of the International Brain Injury Association’s Disorders of Consciousness Special Interest Group, we invite professionals working in the field to request their participation in a survey. The intent is to explore professional opinions relevant to the recommendations included in the newly issued Guidelines on Disorders of Consciousness from the European Academy of Neurology…

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Artificial intelligence, Ethics and Society, Human Brain Project, Outreach and Dissemination, Researcher Awareness , , July 13, 2021

Can AI be conscious? Let us think about the question

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) has achieved remarkable results in recent decades, especially thanks to the refinement of an old and for a long time neglected technology called Deep Learning (DL), a class of machine learning algorithms. Some achievements of DL had a significant impact on public opinion thanks to important media coverage, like the cases of the…

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Ethics and Society , , , December 22, 2020

Are you conscious? Looking for reliable indicators

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How can we be sure that a person in front of us is conscious? This might seem like a näive question, but it actually resulted in one of the trickiest and most intriguing philosophical problems, classically known as “the other minds problem.” Yet this is more than just a philosophical game: reliable detection of conscious…