Raphaël Millière
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 5969050 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Raphaël Millière |
| NOMBRES | Raphaël |
| APELLIDO | Millière |
| FIRMA | MILLIÈRE R |
| AFILIACIONES | Macquarie University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6965-6073 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 9 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 5 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2017 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
The Philosophy of Language Models
The success of large language models (LLMs) across many domains of AI research has generated intense debate. Some attribute their impressive performance on complex tasks to human‐like linguistic and cognitive capacities, whereas others ascribe it to shallow pattern matching. These disputes stem from deep‐seated philosophical disagreements about the nature of language and cognition. We provide an opinionated survey of these disagreements across co…
Constitutive Self-Consciousness
The claim that consciousness constitutively involves self-consciousness has a long philosophical history, and has received renewed support in recent years. My aim in this paper is to argue that this surprisingly enduring idea is misleading at best, and insufficiently supported at worst. I start by offering an elucidatory account of consciousness, and outlining a number of foundational claims that plausibly follow from it. I subsequently distingui…
LLMs as models for analogical reasoning
Analogical reasoning — the capacity to identify and map structural relationships between different domains — is fundamental to human cognition and learning. Recent studies have shown that large language models (LLMs) can sometimes match humans in analogical reasoning tasks, opening the possibility that analogical reasoning might emerge from domain-general processes. However, it is still debated whether these emergent capacities are largely superf…
Anthropocentric Bias in Language Model Evaluation
Evaluating the cognitive capacities of large language models (LLMs) requires overcoming not only anthropomorphic but also anthropocentric biases. This article identifies two types of anthropocentric bias that have been neglected: overlooking how auxiliary factors can impede LLM performance despite competence (auxiliary oversight), and dismissing LLM mechanistic strategies that differ from those of humans as not genuinely competent (mechanistic ch…
Normative conflicts and shallow AI alignment
The progress of AI systems such as large language models (LLMs) raises increasingly pressing concerns about their safe deployment. This paper examines the value alignment problem for LLMs, arguing that current alignment strategies are fundamentally inadequate to prevent misuse. Despite ongoing efforts to instill norms such as helpfulness, honesty, and harmlessness in LLMs through fine-tuning based on human preferences, they remain vulnerable to a…
Selfless Memories
Many authors claim that being conscious constitutively involves being self-conscious, or conscious of oneself . This claim appears to be threatened by reports of ‘selfless’ episodes, or conscious episodes lacking self-consciousness, recently described in a number of pathological and nonpathological conditions. However, the credibility of these reports has in turn been challenged on the following grounds: remembering and reporting a past conscious…
Deep learning and synthetic media
Psychedelics, Meditation, and Self-Consciousness
In recent years, the scientific study of meditation and psychedelic drugs has seen remarkable developments. The increased focus on meditation in cognitive neuroscience has led to a cross-cultural classification of standard meditation styles validated by functional and structural neuroanatomical data. Meanwhile, the renaissance of psychedelic research has shed light on the neurophysiology of altered states of consciousness induced by classical psy…
Les fenêtres de la perception
Durant certains phénomènes autoscopiques et illusions corporelles globales utilisant des dispositifs expérimentaux, des patients ou individus sains peuvent faire l’expérience d’états modifiés de conscience dans lesquels trois aspects fondamentaux de l’expérience ordinaire sont dissociables. Ces trois aspects ont en commun leur caractère apparemment « autoréférentiel » : il s’agit de l’identification de soi à un corps, de la localisation de soi da…
Les fenêtres de la perception
Durant certains phénomènes autoscopiques et illusions corporelles globales utilisant des dispositifs expérimentaux, des patients ou individus sains peuvent faire l’expérience d’états modifiés de conscience dans lesquels trois aspects fondamentaux de l’expérience ordinaire sont dissociables. Ces trois aspects ont en commun leur caractère apparemment « autoréférentiel » : il s’agit de l’identification de soi à un corps, de la localisation de soi da…
Psychedelics, Meditation, and Self-Consciousness
In recent years, the scientific study of meditation and psychedelic drugs has seen remarkable developments. The increased focus on meditation in cognitive neuroscience has led to a cross-cultural classification of standard meditation styles validated by functional and structural neuroanatomical data. Meanwhile, the renaissance of psychedelic research has shed light on the neurophysiology of altered states of consciousness induced by classical psy…
Deep learning and synthetic media
Selfless Memories
Many authors claim that being conscious constitutively involves being self-conscious, or conscious of oneself . This claim appears to be threatened by reports of ‘selfless’ episodes, or conscious episodes lacking self-consciousness, recently described in a number of pathological and nonpathological conditions. However, the credibility of these reports has in turn been challenged on the following grounds: remembering and reporting a past conscious…
Constitutive Self-Consciousness
The claim that consciousness constitutively involves self-consciousness has a long philosophical history, and has received renewed support in recent years. My aim in this paper is to argue that this surprisingly enduring idea is misleading at best, and insufficiently supported at worst. I start by offering an elucidatory account of consciousness, and outlining a number of foundational claims that plausibly follow from it. I subsequently distingui…
LLMs as models for analogical reasoning
Analogical reasoning — the capacity to identify and map structural relationships between different domains — is fundamental to human cognition and learning. Recent studies have shown that large language models (LLMs) can sometimes match humans in analogical reasoning tasks, opening the possibility that analogical reasoning might emerge from domain-general processes. However, it is still debated whether these emergent capacities are largely superf…
Anthropocentric Bias in Language Model Evaluation
Evaluating the cognitive capacities of large language models (LLMs) requires overcoming not only anthropomorphic but also anthropocentric biases. This article identifies two types of anthropocentric bias that have been neglected: overlooking how auxiliary factors can impede LLM performance despite competence (auxiliary oversight), and dismissing LLM mechanistic strategies that differ from those of humans as not genuinely competent (mechanistic ch…
Normative conflicts and shallow AI alignment
The progress of AI systems such as large language models (LLMs) raises increasingly pressing concerns about their safe deployment. This paper examines the value alignment problem for LLMs, arguing that current alignment strategies are fundamentally inadequate to prevent misuse. Despite ongoing efforts to instill norms such as helpfulness, honesty, and harmlessness in LLMs through fine-tuning based on human preferences, they remain vulnerable to a…
The Philosophy of Language Models
The success of large language models (LLMs) across many domains of AI research has generated intense debate. Some attribute their impressive performance on complex tasks to human‐like linguistic and cognitive capacities, whereas others ascribe it to shallow pattern matching. These disputes stem from deep‐seated philosophical disagreements about the nature of language and cognition. We provide an opinionated survey of these disagreements across co…
Psychology (8 obras) · Epistemology (6 obras) · Philosophy (6 obras) · Cognitive science (5 obras) · Cognition (4 obras) · Cognitive psychology (4 obras) · Neuroscience (4 obras) · Consciousness (3 obras) · Embodied and Extended Cognition (2 obras) · Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI (2 obras)