Eric Schwitzgebel is professor of philosophy at the University of California, Riverside. He is the author of The Weirdness of the World, A Theory of Jerks and Other Philosophical Misadventures, Perplexities of Consciousness, and Describing Inner Experience? (with Russell T. Hurlburt).
Summit 2025
Thursday ·
8:00pm
We gather some of today’s most original thinkers to open the field of conversation. Each brings a different lens — plural intelligences, collective wisdom, philosophical rupture, planetary scale, and emergent meaning. Together, they won’t offer conclusions but provocations, setting the stage for the Summit as a space to ask not only what intelligence is, but how we want to live with it — me, we, and us.
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Saturday ·
4:00pm
AI may well completely reframe what a mind can be. In this session, philosopher Eric Schwitzgebel navigates the blurred boundaries of consciousness, pushing us past quick judgments to reckon with the moral ambiguity of how and why we assume minds exist. Together, we explore the disorienting, uncanny, and generative spaces that open when meaning meets the machine.
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