Lists of things that are my favorites in their respective categories, matter a lot to me, or appeals to me in mysterious ways.
(most of the lists are not going to make much sense)
Papers
By year
(I am attempting to keep a top 10 favorite each year)
· 2024:
- Quality space computations for consciousness (TiCS) – Stephen M. Fleming & Nicholas Shea
- Concepts are specifically structured and handled mental files (CogSci 46) – Francesco Marchi & Albert Newen
- Fear beyond danger (MILA) – Frédérique de Vignemont
- Episodic memory without autonoetic consciousness (Phil. Trans. B) – Felipe De Brigard
- Beyond preferences in AI alignment (Phil. Stud.) – Tan Zhi-Xuan, Micah Carroll, Majita Franklin, & Hal Ashton
- Sources of richness and ineffability for phenomenally conscious states (Neuroscience of Consciousness) – Xu Ji, Eric Elmoznino, George Deane, Axel Constant, Guillaume Dumas, Guillaume Lajoie, Jonathan Simon, & Yoshua Bengio
- Implementing artificial consciousness (MILA) – Leonard Dung & Luke Kersten
- Sensory horizon and the functions of conscious vision (BBS) – Stephen M. Fleming & Matthias Michel
- Taking AI welfare seriously (arXiv) – Robert Long, Jeff Sebo, Patrick Butlin, Kathleen Finlinson, Kyle Fish, Jacqueline Harding, Jacob Pfau, Toni Sims, Jonathan Birch, & David Chalmers
- Simulacra as conscious exotica (Inquiry) – Murray Shanahan
All time
· A higher-order theory of emotional consciousness (PNAS; 2017) – Joseph E. LeDoux & Richard Brown
· Access for what? Reflective consciousness (BBS Commentary; 2007) – Michael Snodgrass & Scott A. Lepisto
· Belief is weak (Phil. Stud.; 2016) – John Hawthorne, Daniel Rothschild, & Levi Spectre
· Consciousness, metacognition, & perceptual reality monitoring (2019) – Hakwan Lau
· Defining sexual orientation (Arch. Sex. Behav. Commentary; 2016) – Charles Moser
· Does ‘consciousness’ exist? (JoP; 1904) – William James
· Love and pain (1913) – Havelock Ellis
· Perceptual symbol systems (BBS; 1999) – Lawrence W. Barsalou
· Preadaptation and the puzzles and properties of pleasure (1999) – Paul Rozin
· Self and substance (Phil. Perspect.; 1997) – Sydney Shoemaker
· The intentional stance (1991) – Daniel C. Dennett
· The language of thought (1975) – Jerry A. Fodor
· The psychology of intelligence (1950) – Jean Piaget
· Thinking sex: Notes for a radical theory of the politics of sexuality (1984) – Gayle S. Rubin
Novels
· Aliens & Anorexia (2000) – Chris Kraus
· Autobiography of Red (1998) – Anne Carson
· Pussy, King of the Pirates (1996) – Kathy Acker
· The City & the City (2009) – China Miéville
· The Lord of the Rings (1937-1949) – JRRT
· The Royal Family (2020) – William T. Vollmann
· Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1869-1870) – Vernes
Short Stories
· Don’t Look Now (1971) – Daphne du Maurier
· Everything and Nothing (1960) – Jorge Luis Borges
· Light is Like Water (1978) – Gabriel García Márquez
· Sandkings (1979) – George R. R. Martin
· The Dead (1914) – James Joyce
· The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (1973) – Ursula K. Le Guin
· The Snow of Kilimanjaro (1936) – Ernest Hemingway
· The Story of Hair (1920) – Lu Xun
Movies
· Blade Runner (1982)
· Pulp Fiction (1994)
(I rarely see movies)
Albums
Randoms
· Balsamic Vinegar
· Blahaj the Shark
· Cicada
· Edamame
· OPPO A59S
· San Pellegrino (500 ml; plastic bottle)
· Stiga Nano Offensive Wood
· Lujiazui Bikepath
· The driveway behind Haidian Theater
· The Ride of the Rohirrim
· The Supernote Discussion
· Three Spring Bay
Dezhi Luo 