2009 — Publications — Joanna Bryson

Posts in 2009

Building Persons Is a Choice

Joanna J. Bryson, an invited commentary on an article by Anne Foerst called Robots and Theology, in Erwägen Wissen Ethik, 20(2):195-197, 2009.

It isn’t that AI couldn’t conceivably deserve ethical obligation, rather it would be unethical for us to allow it to. See further my page on ethics and AI.

2009ScienceSitesMay 9, 2020Ethics and Policy, AI Ethics

Age-Related Inhibition and Learning Effects: Evidence from Transitive Performance (pdf)

Joanna Bryson, in Proceedings of the 31st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2009) pp. 3040-3045.

The paper is a scientific consequence of the ideas put forward in “Crude, Cheesy, Second-Rate Consciousness” (see below), and the work I am doing on understanding the evolution of cognition. It concerns the tradeoffs between individual and genetic learning, and whether these may be shifted on the basis of individual experience over an agent’s life history. Evidence is derived from models of macaque task learning. Camera ready from April 2009. Associated software comes with the standard lisp distribution of BOD.

2009ScienceSitesMay 9, 2020Origins and Nature of Cognition, Consciousness

Crude, Cheesy, Second-Rate Consciousness (pdf)

Joanna J. Bryson, presented at the 2nd AISB Symposium on Computing and Philosophy in April 2009.

Final draft from March 2009. An earlier, shorter version discussing Dennett more directly is listed under 2008. The scientific ideas (without mention of robots or consciousness) are supported in my CogSci09 paper, above.

2009ScienceSitesMay 9, 2020Origins and Nature of Cognition

Representations Underlying Social Learning and Cultural Evolution (pdf)