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Excited to have been selected as a CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar as part of CIFAR's Future Flourishing programme - a chance to work with some very cool people thinking about problems with human exceptionalism 🎉

Congratulations to Ali Boyle (#LSEPhilosophy) - one of the newly selected CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars! 🥳

Don't miss the #LSEPhilosophy panel at the #LSEFestival2024 with Jonathan Birch, Daria Zakharova, Sam Beckbessinger, @ElliLeadbeater1, and Bryan Roberts 🏳️‍🌈️ on 'Invertebrate minds: from spiders to octopuses' 🕷️🐙 🗓️Saturday, 15 June 2024, 2.00pm to 3.00pm More: lse.ac.uk/Events/LSE-Fes…

Accompanied by a VR installation of walking into the mind of a Portia spider, come check it out June 10-15th at the LSE!

If you'd like a print copy of The Edge of Sentience, you can pre-order one now for £30 (amzn.eu/d/dIb1AuN). And if you're satisfied with a free PDF copy, you can sign up to get one now at (edgeofsentience.com).

Now officially published ! "'All Animals are Conscious': Shifting the Null Hypothesis in Consciousness Science". Still open access- you can find it here onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mi…

Please join us in person or online on Saturday 15 June for "Invertebrate minds: from spiders to octopuses". For those here in person, don't miss Daria Zakharova's accompanying VR art installation. lse.ac.uk/Events/LSE-Fes…

Wrote a short piece for the LSE Impact Blog about the installation, the research that inspired it, and how science-and-philosophy-inspired art can contribute to shaping our relationship to non-human minds. blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocial…

Check out the installation at the #LSEFestival next week and don’t forget to register (for free) for our panel discussion happening on June 15th! lse.ac.uk/Events/LSE-Fes…

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We are now talking about spider consciousness with Sam Beckbessinger Jonathan Birch @ElliLeadbeater1 Daria Zakharova Bryan Roberts 🏳️‍🌈️ as part of the last #LSEFestival day LSE Philosophy

In Birmingham presenting a new paper at the Joint Session. We all remember episodes from our childhood, but do really know what those experiences were like while being so psychologically/physically different? This and lots of other related questions. Aristotelian Society

My book The Edge of Sentience: Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI is out 15 August. Sign up at edgeofsentience.com for a free PDF - and use code AAFLYG6 to get 30% off a printed copy at global.oup.com/academic/produ…

"I'm first, look at me!" is the title I should have given this Ergo paper, out today. It is at least the title of my talk today at the BSPS, which draws on this work. Anyhow, you can find out why you should be more mindful of how you order information here journals.publishing.umich.edu/ergo/article/i…

I really think Anna Zeligowski has done a fantastic job with the cover of The Edge of Sentience. A great honour to have an original artwork by such a brilliant illustrator.

I'm very happy to share my article 'Can animals grieve?', which has just been published open access in Ergo Phil Journal. I argue that—contra assumptions present in various philosophical accounts of grief—many non-human animals can, and do, grieve. doi.org/10.3998/ergo.6…

🦀🐝🧠🤖 How should we make decisions when faced with systems of uncertain sentience? My new book The Edge of Sentience: Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI is available online for free at academic.oup.com/book/57949. Please download it! Just click on PDF to get a

Coming up this September: the second Santa Maria-Grenoble Memory Workshop!

I've read many books about consciousness/sentience in which the importance of the questions for policy, ethics and law is mentioned at the beginning (as motivation) but then put to one side. Four years ago I set out to write a book that would be "inside out": it would put the

One day I'm going to come back to the notes I just wrote in a meeting and wonder why I wrote 'Elephants: WHAT DO THEY KNOW??' in a corner, apparently unrelated to anything else.