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Michael Timothy Bennett

@mitibennett.bsky.social

awrd wnning AGI rsrchr (2 awrds so far) | mtlhed | msician | fnishng CS PhD | optmst | opn src enthusiast | michaeltimothybennett.com/research

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"How to build conscious machines" by Michael Timothy Bennett
YouTube video by Michael Levin's Academic Content "How to build conscious machines" by Michael Timothy Bennett

Honored to have presented my research on @drmichaellevin.bsky.social's YouTube channel!
m.youtube.com/watch?v=boTA...

03.07.2025 03:05 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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waiting for my thesis to be examined

01.07.2025 08:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The No Body Problem: Intelligence and Selfhood in Biological and Artificial Systems Do you need a body to be an intelligent system? Clearly not. Artificial systems such as Large Language Models do not have a body and yet they are promptly qualified as intelligent and even conscious. ...

sciety-labs.elifesciences.org/articles/by?...

25.06.2025 16:41 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Boy, that escalated quickly... I mean, that really got out of hand fast

17.06.2025 03:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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hacker news found my thesis

15.06.2025 02:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Here it is! osf.io/preprints/th...

08.06.2025 11:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Preprint: osf.io/preprints/th...

21.05.2025 23:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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New preprint. My thesis. Comments very welcome. Abstract below. Link in comment.

21.05.2025 23:12 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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How did complex cognition evolve from cells to mammalian brains? What are the key evolutionary events that led to intelligent agents? What about the emergence of AI? Check out this superb book by Max Bennett @manlius.bsky.social
@koseskalab.bsky.social @mitibennett.bsky.social

16.05.2025 17:46 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Cooked a new paper 😎

The No Body Problem - Intelligence and Selfhood in Biological and Artificial Systems

osf.io/preprints/ps...

13.05.2025 13:46 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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Happy to co-edit this Special Issue in Philosophical Transactions for the Royal Sociey B !

We have a rich line up of invited contributors from all over the world and all career stages 😎✨

Watch this space !

14.05.2025 07:57 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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It is done.

13.05.2025 13:26 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

thanks!

13.05.2025 11:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Today is the day.

13.05.2025 10:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The deadline approaches. Some amazing submissions this year, keep it up! 21 hours left until end of day, 12th of May, anywhere on earth. There is still time to write another paper! @agisociety.bsky.social

12.05.2025 12:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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they told me my work not well known, and I just need to get more eyeballs on it

07.05.2025 03:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Thesis continues. Moar pages!

07.05.2025 03:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The pagecount continues to grow. The final chapter is now well and truly under way.

05.05.2025 08:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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My thesis spontaneously grew 4 more pages this morning. Soon it will be done. Just a few more.

03.05.2025 01:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This year's Mathematical Consciousness Science conference, Models of Consciousness 6 (#MoC6) will take place in Sapporo, Japan.

πŸ‘‰ You're cordially invited to join us!

Kudos to this year's main organizer, Robert Prentner!
amcs-community.org/events/moc6-... #consci

26.04.2025 12:57 β€” πŸ‘ 29    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I will. Looking forward to hearing what you think!

24.04.2025 09:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I have a PhD thesis coming out very soon I think you might like

24.04.2025 07:35 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Soon it will be complete, and I will do nothing but play videogames for a week. Very, very soon.

21.04.2025 08:54 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

@lenoreblum.bsky.social @johanneskleiner.bsky.social

12.04.2025 02:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Call for Papers & Workshops - AGI-25 AGI-25 The 18th Annual AGI Conference Call for Papers Call for: Papers Deadline for submissions:May 12th 2025 Submit your papers TO EASYCHAIR The AGI Society and AGI Technical Conference team invites ...

The 18th Annual AGI Conference has received a lot of engagement, including an exciting collaboration with members of the AMCS and the consciousness research community!

To accommodate, the @agisociety.bsky.social has extended the submission deadline to May 12, 2025.
agi-conf.org/2025/call-fo...

12.04.2025 02:12 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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barry the portia spider lives in the vents on my monitor. comes out to play with my mouse pointer when i'm working

05.04.2025 00:43 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Actually there’s online participation as well!

13.03.2025 08:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Do you research AGI, AI, ML, philosophy of AI or related topics? Please consider submitting a paper to this year's AGI conference!

Links below for the CFP [Discord linked in bio].

13.03.2025 04:08 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

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