#Philosophy of Mind

The hardest philosophical problem raised by artificial intelligence — whether AI systems can have inner experience, whether there is something it is like to be a language model, and what the answer means for how we build and treat AI systems. The question that philosophy has been building toward for centuries and that AI has made impossible to defer any longer.

The deeper story behind the world's first chatbot — what ELIZA revealed about human psychology, the nature of language, and the gap between the appearance of understanding and its reality. We go beyond the famous chatbot story to the philosophical questions it raised, and why those questions matter more than ever in the age of large language models.

A thematic synthesis of Alan Turing's entire intellectual journey — from the Turing Machine to Bletchley Park to the 1950 paper to morphogenesis — and why one mind, working across mathematics, philosophy, biology, and engineering, laid the conceptual foundations of an entire civilisation's technology.

He invented cybernetics, the science of communication and control in machines and animals. He warned the world about automation destroying human labour — in 1950. He predicted the ethical crises of AI before the field had a name. And almost nobody listened. The forgotten genius who saw everything coming.