I'm a PhD student at Western University. I'm primarily interested in AI alignment and animals, animal ethics, animal consciousness, sentience and sentientism. My secondary interests include personal identity, the self, the value of consciousness, phenomenal consciousness, machine consciousness and environmental ethics. I'm also somewhat interested in Buddhist philosophy.
Philosophical views I'm sympathetic to, among others:
—broad/wide (non-valenced) sentientism,
—rule utilitarianism and negative utilitarianism,
—Ryder's painism,
—metaphysical monism,
—panprotopsychism and emergentism about consciousness,
—Galen Strawson's "real mater…
I'm a PhD student at Western University. I'm primarily interested in AI alignment and animals, animal ethics, animal consciousness, sentience and sentientism. My secondary interests include personal identity, the self, the value of consciousness, phenomenal consciousness, machine consciousness and environmental ethics. I'm also somewhat interested in Buddhist philosophy.
Philosophical views I'm sympathetic to, among others:
—broad/wide (non-valenced) sentientism,
—rule utilitarianism and negative utilitarianism,
—Ryder's painism,
—metaphysical monism,
—panprotopsychism and emergentism about consciousness,
—Galen Strawson's "real materalism",
—Paleo-Lockean (Daintonian) phenomenalism in personal ontology and identity.
