Susan Schneider - Bryant McGill

# Susan Schneider **Entity class:** Philosopher of mind and AI researcher **Collections:** [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]] · [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] **Canonical source article:** [[articles/Host-Indexed Autonomy|Host-Indexed Autonomy]] ## Definition **Susan Schneider** is a philosopher of mind whose work addresses artificial consciousness, identity, and tests for possible machine minds. ## Relationships - **Advisor to:** [[wiki/PRISM (Partnership for Research Into Sentient Machines)|PRISM]]. - **Institutional affiliation:** [[wiki/Florida Atlantic University|Florida Atlantic University]]. - **Program role:** mentor in [[wiki/AI Sentience Scholars|AI Sentience Scholars]]. - **Research routes:** [[wiki/Artificial Consciousness|artificial consciousness]], [[wiki/Personal Identity|personal identity]], and [[wiki/Substrate Independence|substrate independence]]. - **Collection and source routes:** [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]], [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]], and [[articles/Host-Indexed Autonomy|Host-Indexed Autonomy]]. ## Simple Reminders, Quotations, and Thoughts  > "AI consciousness is not a foregone conclusion." > **— Susan Schneider**, *Artificial You (2019), wording candidate* *Verification Status: Unverified — exact wording/source has not yet been independently confirmed against a primary source; source clue: Artificial You (2019), wording candidate.* [[reminders/unverified/AI Consciousness Is Not a Foregone Conclusion by Susan Schneider|AI Consciousness Is Not a Foregone Conclusion by Susan Schneider]] > "The survival of your pattern is not necessarily the survival of your consciousness." > **— Susan Schneider**, *Mind-uploading writings, wording candidate* *Verification Status: Unverified — exact wording/source has not yet been independently confirmed against a primary source; source clue: Mind-uploading writings, wording candidate.* [[reminders/unverified/Pattern Survival Is Not Conscious Survival by Susan Schneider|Pattern Survival Is Not Conscious Survival by Susan Schneider]] > "Superintelligent AI may be conscious—or it may be a zombie." > **— Susan Schneider**, *Artificial You (2019), compressed candidate wording* *Verification Status: Unverified — exact wording/source has not yet been independently confirmed against a primary source; source clue: Artificial You (2019), compressed candidate wording.* [[reminders/unverified/Superintelligent AI May Be Conscious by Susan Schneider|Superintelligent AI May Be Conscious by Susan Schneider]] > "The brain is the seat of consciousness." > **— Susan Schneider**, *Mind-uploading interviews and Artificial You, wording candidate* *Verification Status: Unverified — exact wording/source has not yet been independently confirmed against a primary source; source clue: Mind-uploading interviews and Artificial You, wording candidate.* [[reminders/unverified/The Brain Is the Seat of Consciousness by Susan Schneider|The Brain Is the Seat of Consciousness by Susan Schneider]] > "We should not assume that intelligence and consciousness go together." > **— Susan Schneider**, *Artificial You (2019), wording candidate* *Verification Status: Unverified — exact wording/source has not yet been independently confirmed against a primary source; source clue: Artificial You (2019), wording candidate.* [[reminders/unverified/We Should Not Assume That Intelligence by Susan Schneider|We Should Not Assume That Intelligence by Susan Schneider]]  ## Sources - [PRISM — team and advisors](https://www.prism-global.com/) - [Neuromatch — AI Sentience Scholars](https://neuromatch.io/ai-sentience-scholars/) ## Quotations  Quotations here are evidence for named propositions, not substitutes for proof. Confidence grades describe the quotation's provenance; they do not raise the associated scientific or philosophical inference to the same tier. The selection record is [[research/Research Inferences|Research Inferences]] and the supplied quotation review dated 2026-09-11. **Corpus context:** [[articles/Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta|Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta]] · [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] > “You wouldn’t be conscious, and it wouldn’t be you.” > > — **Susan Schneider**, 2016 Nautilus interview. [Source](https://nautil.us/would-you-have-any-cosmetic-neurology-done-235994) · **Provenance confidence:** Medium **Evidentiary role:** challenges the identification of a functional upload with conscious personal survival. > “Uploading would not be a route to digital immortality but suicide.” > > — **Susan Schneider**, 2016 Nautilus interview. [Source](https://nautil.us/would-you-have-any-cosmetic-neurology-done-235994) · **Provenance confidence:** Medium **Evidentiary role:** states the strongest copy-not-continuation objection.