Exploring Infant Consciousness and Cognitive Development

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Claudia Passos is an Assistant Professor of Bioethics at NYU studying infant consciousness, Garrett Mindt is a professor of philosophy at Florida Atlantic University focused on novel information-theoretic metaphysics, and Carlos Montemayor is a professor of philosophy whose research focuses on the intersection between philosophy of mind, epistemology and cognitive science.

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TIMESTAMPS:

00:00:00 Introduction

00:03:56 How aware are infants?

00:08:36 Correlates of consciousness

00:11:16 Trauma in infants

00:17:00 Traditional definitions of consciousness

00:22:05 Animal consciousness

00:26:05 Phenomenal consciousness

00:35:37 “You can't be intelligent if you are not autonomous”

00:37:00 Asymmetric moral considerations

00:41:00 Agency needs vulnerability to work

00:43:20 The borders between biology and machine

00:46:00 Building "mini brains"!

00:58:40 Behavioral markers of consciousness

01:00:10 Should AI be given the same ethical consideration as our human children?

01:05:16 Do infants lack moral standing?

01:08:14 Is analogue consciousness relevant?

01:14:06 What do we mean by “autonomy”?

01:19:00 Outro

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