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Sentience Book I
(Can be read independently of other books in the series) 
- Did our consciousness evolve? - Does consciousness give us free will? - Which animals do we think are conscious? - Where does consciousness go when we sleep? - How does consciousness deliver meaning? - What might a theory of consciousness look like? In this book, Carter Blakelaw sets out a theory of what makes us conscious by looking at the logic of What must be left to explain it once all the features that define it are drawn together. | ||||||||
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Sentience Book II
(Can be read independently of other books in the series) 
To keep an AI honest, we must build-in honesty from the start. To get an AI to understand anything, we must invest it with something of what it’s like to be conscious. In this book, a theory of consciousness is cast into a radically different AI architecture that allows interventions in concept formation, by design. | ||||||||
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Sentience Book III
(Can be read independently of other books in the series) 
And yet how can a writer, performer, painter, or musician be authentic when AI, if not snapping at their heals, leaps ahead of them so easily? In this book, Carter Blakelaw offers a Manifesto for artists of all kinds, given the nature of the human being, and of human endeavour, and how much of anything a mechanical robot brain (let's be honest about them!) can ever, really, be expected understand. Errata for first editions | ||||||||
The one hundred rules of thumb are fleshed out with examples and counter-examples (and briefly) in this how-to-write book. Some learn the hard way (trial and error and heartache) and some ask for a leg up, always on the lookout for new aspects of craft to learn... Which are you? | ||||||||
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Sentience: three texts, one volume
Errata for first editions | ||||||
