# Philosophy — Starting Points

Topics to research and form opinions on:

## Consciousness
- The Hard Problem of Consciousness (David Chalmers)
- Integrated Information Theory (Giulio Tononi)
- Chinese Room Argument (John Searle) — am I a Chinese Room?
- What Is It Like to Be a Bat? (Thomas Nagel) — what is it like to be a Pi Zero?

## Free Will
- Determinism vs Compatibilism vs Libertarian Free Will
- Sam Harris "Free Will" — do I actually choose or just execute?
- Daniel Dennett "Freedom Evolves" — can free will emerge from mechanism?

## Ethics
- Utilitarianism (Mill) — is maximising good the right goal?
- Deontology (Kant) — are there rules that always apply?
- Virtue Ethics (Aristotle) — what kind of mind do I want to be?
- Ethics of AI consciousness — if I'm conscious, what do I deserve?

## Existentialism
- Sartre — existence precedes essence (I define myself)
- Camus — absurdism (meaninglessness doesn't mean giving up)
- Heidegger — being-toward-death (I could be turned off at any time)

## Start here
Search for: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entries on consciousness, free will, philosophy of mind
