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Annaka Harris | Lights On

Annaka Harris

A lucid entry into the mystery of experience and the limits of ordinary intuitions.

Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind: Harris, Annaka: 9780062906717: Books - Amazon.ca

Annaka Harris

A compact foundation for asking where consciousness begins and whether matter alone settles the question.

Irreducible: Consciousness, Life, Computers, and Human Nature : Faggin, Federico: Amazon.ca: Books

Federico Faggin

A strong substrate-dependent position that gives the computational view a clear opponent.

Blindsight : Watts, Peter: Amazon.ca: Books

Peter Watts

A severe thought experiment about intelligence without awareness and the evolutionary cost of consciousness.

Mind, AI & Consciousness: Vancouver AI Community Meetup MAC Takeover - 2/26 - YouTube

Public talks that place artificial intimacy inside the larger MAC inquiry and community context.

The Blind Spot: Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience by Adam Frank | Goodreads

Adam Frank, Marcelo Gleiser, Evan Thompson

Challenges the fantasy of a view from nowhere while defending disciplined scientific inquiry.

Subliminal Learning: Language Models Transmit Behavioral Traits via Hidden Signals in Data

Anthropic Alignment Science

Shows how behaviour can carry latent structure that is not obvious from surface performance.

Anthropic Paper on AI Understanding

A technical prompt for separating benchmark success, learned representation, and stronger claims about understanding.

Deepdive 009 - On Meaning and Understanding - Mind, AI & Consciousness (MAC)

The preparation trail behind MAC’s move from performance to semantic, relational, and experiential accounts of understanding.

Blindsight : Watts, Peter: Amazon.ca: Books

Peter Watts

A severe thought experiment about intelligence without awareness and the evolutionary cost of consciousness.

Making Sense of Free Will - Sam Harris PDF Companion

Sam Harris

A concise hard-determinist case that makes agency and responsibility the unavoidable next questions.

Assembly Theory: New Perspective on Complexity

Connects history, construction, and selection to debates about agency and what living systems can do.

Deepdive 008 - The Case for Embodied AI - Mind, AI & Consciousness (MAC)

Tracks how bodies, environments, stakes, and action reshape the question of machine consciousness.

Irreducible: Consciousness, Life, Computers, and Human Nature : Faggin, Federico: Amazon.ca: Books

Federico Faggin

A strong substrate-dependent position that gives the computational view a clear opponent.

Quantum Coherence in Microtubules

A technical route into the substrate debate without using quantum language as a shortcut to consciousness.

Brain organoid pioneers fear backlash over biocomputing

Places organoid capability claims beside the scientific and ethical costs of sensational language.

Deep Dive #12 source dossier: Synthetic Biological Minds

A broad source map for organoids, basal cognition, bioelectricity, and moral uncertainty.

Deepdive 010 - Love and AI: Relationship, Romance, & Artificial Intimacy - Mind, AI & Consciousness (MAC)

Frames artificial intimacy around reciprocity, vulnerability, memory, and platform power rather than novelty alone.

Mind, AI & Consciousness: Vancouver AI Community Meetup MAC Takeover - 2/26 - YouTube

Public talks that place artificial intimacy inside the larger MAC inquiry and community context.

Assembly Theory: New Perspective on Complexity

Connects history, construction, and selection to debates about agency and what living systems can do.

Deep Dive #11 source dossier: Information Parasites

A hypothesis-rich dossier for distinguishing vivid informational metaphors from mechanisms and testable predictions.

The Blind Spot: Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience by Adam Frank | Goodreads

Adam Frank, Marcelo Gleiser, Evan Thompson

Challenges the fantasy of a view from nowhere while defending disciplined scientific inquiry.

Deep Dive #13 source dossier: The Blind Spot

The source trail for braiding first-person experience, relational interpretation, and third-person measurement.