Brain-Computer Interface Tool Use & the Contemplation Conundrum: A Blueprint of Mental Action, Agency & Control
“Under some theories of intentional action, certain BCI-mediated overt movements qualify as both voluntary and unintentional. This plausibly magnifies the ethical considerations surrounding BCI tool use.”
Belief Offloading in Human-AI Interaction
“People's processes of forming and upholding beliefs are offloaded onto an AI system with downstream consequences on their behavior and the nature of their system of beliefs.”
Why Neuralink's Brain Implant Reframes Our Ideas of Self-Identity
When a device reads and writes directly to the brain, the boundary between self and tool begins to dissolve — forcing a fundamental rethinking of personal identity and autonomy.
Sentience, Valence & Value: When Does AI Qualify for Psychological Moral Patiency?
“Could cognitively advanced artificial systems possess affective states that matter morally?” I present an affective profile framework that addresses the possible affective states a cognitively complex AI system could possess and the moral value that psychological states of felt-unpleasantness hold.
Extended Agency
“What happens to agency when an integrated external system makes decisions and acts on your behalf — on states you have not consciously perceived? Agency, like cognition, extends.”
Artificial Creativity & the Incomplete Aesthetic Experience
Exploring the phenomenological dimensions of creativity that computational systems lack — the “what it is like-ness” that grounds authentic artistic expression in lived experience.