Theo Todman's Book Collection (Book-Paper Abstracts)

Notes

• Oxford Academic, 29th July 2024
• For the full text, see Birch - The Edge of Sentience.
• For the book's website, see Birch - The Edge of Sentience: Website.
• I've printed out the pdf and filed it in a ring binder.
• Some recent links (advertised on 8th November 2024):-
  → Birch - WSJ - When the Brain Cells in the Petri Dish Stare Back
  → Sean Carroll's Mindscape - Jonathan Birch on Animal Sentience
  → Philosophy Bites: Jonathan Birch on the Edge of Sentience
  → Knowing Animals: Episode 231 - The Edge of Sentience with Jonathan Birch
  → Kimmelman - Nature - Can AI feel distress? Inside a new framework to assess sentience (but behind a paywall)
  → Hale - IFL Science - Octopus And AI: Where Does True Sentience Begin And End?
• Having read the book, I won't learn much from the above, but they indicate the public focus of the book.
• There are also links from the book's website above.