Marta Halina
Biographic Data
| ID | 5969380 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marta Halina |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marta |
| FAMILY NAME | Halina |
| SIGNATURE | HALINA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3482-4281 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Evolution of Animal Consciousness
The evolution of phenomenal consciousness remains a central challenge in the philosophy of mind and cognitive science. Although many argue that consciousness can be understood as a biological phenomenon, there is considerable disagreement about its origins. Competing theories range from early evolution views, which trace consciousness back to the Cambrian period around 540 million years ago, to latecomer theories, which associate it with complex …
Sentience and society
In The edge of sentience , Jonathan Birch proposes a democratically inclusive framework for protecting potentially sentient beings. While experts assess and communicate evidence of sentience, the public deliberates on proportionate policy responses to avoid causing gratuitous suffering. While we think there are many virtues to Birch's analysis and approach, in this commentary, we raise the concern that the proposed framework fails to sufficiently…
Unlimited Associative Learning as a Null Hypothesis
A common strategy in comparative cognition is to require that one reject associative learning as an explanation for behavior before concluding that an organism is capable of causal reasoning. In this paper, I argue that standard causal-reasoning tasks can be explained by a powerful form of associative learning: unlimited associative learning (UAL). The lesson, however, is not that researchers should conduct more studies to reject UAL, but that th…
Insightful artificial intelligence
In March 2016, DeepMind's computer programme AlphaGo surprised the world by defeating the world‐champion Go player, Lee Sedol. AlphaGo exhibits a novel, surprising and valuable style of play and has been recognised as “creative” by the artificial intelligence (AI) and Go communities. This article examines whether AlphaGo engages in creative problem solving according to the standards of comparative psychology. I argue that AlphaGo displays one imp…
Minds, Machines, and Molecules
Recent debates about the biological and evolutionary conditions for sentience have generated a renewed interest in fine-grained functionalism. According to one such account advanced by Peter Godfrey-Smith, sentience depends on the fine-grained activities characteristic of living organisms. Specifically, the scale, context and stochasticity of these fine-grained activities. One implication of this view is that contemporary artificial intelligence …
Octopuses as conscious exotica
There Is No Special Problem of Mindreading in Nonhuman Animals
There is currently a consensus among comparative psychologists that nonhuman animals are capable of some forms of mindreading. Several philosophers and psychologists have criticized this consensus, however, arguing that there is a “logical problem” with the experimental approach used to test for mindreading in nonhuman animals. I argue that the logical problem is no more than a version of the general skeptical problem known as the theoretician’s …
There Is No Special Problem of Mindreading in Nonhuman Animals
There is currently a consensus among comparative psychologists that nonhuman animals are capable of some forms of mindreading. Several philosophers and psychologists have criticized this consensus, however, arguing that there is a “logical problem” with the experimental approach used to test for mindreading in nonhuman animals. I argue that the logical problem is no more than a version of the general skeptical problem known as the theoretician’s …
There Is No Special Problem of Mindreading in Nonhuman Animals
There is currently a consensus among comparative psychologists that nonhuman animals are capable of some forms of mindreading. Several philosophers and psychologists have criticized this consensus, however, arguing that there is a “logical problem” with the experimental approach used to test for mindreading in nonhuman animals. I argue that the logical problem is no more than a version of the general skeptical problem known as the theoretician’s …
Octopuses as conscious exotica
Minds, Machines, and Molecules
Recent debates about the biological and evolutionary conditions for sentience have generated a renewed interest in fine-grained functionalism. According to one such account advanced by Peter Godfrey-Smith, sentience depends on the fine-grained activities characteristic of living organisms. Specifically, the scale, context and stochasticity of these fine-grained activities. One implication of this view is that contemporary artificial intelligence …
Insightful artificial intelligence
In March 2016, DeepMind's computer programme AlphaGo surprised the world by defeating the world‐champion Go player, Lee Sedol. AlphaGo exhibits a novel, surprising and valuable style of play and has been recognised as “creative” by the artificial intelligence (AI) and Go communities. This article examines whether AlphaGo engages in creative problem solving according to the standards of comparative psychology. I argue that AlphaGo displays one imp…
Unlimited Associative Learning as a Null Hypothesis
A common strategy in comparative cognition is to require that one reject associative learning as an explanation for behavior before concluding that an organism is capable of causal reasoning. In this paper, I argue that standard causal-reasoning tasks can be explained by a powerful form of associative learning: unlimited associative learning (UAL). The lesson, however, is not that researchers should conduct more studies to reject UAL, but that th…
The Evolution of Animal Consciousness
The evolution of phenomenal consciousness remains a central challenge in the philosophy of mind and cognitive science. Although many argue that consciousness can be understood as a biological phenomenon, there is considerable disagreement about its origins. Competing theories range from early evolution views, which trace consciousness back to the Cambrian period around 540 million years ago, to latecomer theories, which associate it with complex …
Sentience and society
In The edge of sentience , Jonathan Birch proposes a democratically inclusive framework for protecting potentially sentient beings. While experts assess and communicate evidence of sentience, the public deliberates on proportionate policy responses to avoid causing gratuitous suffering. While we think there are many virtues to Birch's analysis and approach, in this commentary, we raise the concern that the proposed framework fails to sufficiently…
Psychology (6 works) · Cognitive science (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Child and Animal Learning Development (2 works) · Cognition (2 works) · Cognitive Science and Mapping (2 works) · Law (2 works)