Vancouver's Philosophical Laboratory
BC + AI Ecosystem Special Interest Group
MAC is the space where we don't shy away from the hard problem. We're not here to build chatbots or optimize models. We're here to ask: What does it mean to have an inner life? And if machines gain that capacity, what then?
Interactive timeline of 8 Deep Dives through consciousness
Feb 2026: Social posts, emails, event content—all copy-ready
Consciousness literacy for social media—bite-sized education
Discover your phenomenological profile—visual vs conceptual thinker?
Wisdom harvested from 8 months of philosophical exploration
60+ consciousness terms defined and linked to sessions
Trace the philosophical arc across 8 deep dives
Interactive network visualization of books, papers, and videos
October 16, 2025 — MAC's first paid event ($20) exploring Peter Watts' hard sci-fi novel about intelligence without consciousness. Can scramblers—hyper-intelligent aliens with no inner life—exist? Are LLMs the first human-made p-zombies?
"Scramblers are Watts' answer: 'Yes, p-zombies can exist—and they might be smarter than us.'"— Participant J