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“AI is conscious” = “AI is X” If you’re going to claim that AI is conscious, or even can be conscious, YOU need to define what consciousness is, and if you can’t, your claim can be dismissed without evidence. I refuse to define it because the burden of proof isn’t on me.

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Folding_Napkins @FoldingNapkins · Sep 26

I don't ask you to prove anything one way or another, but instead ask what tangible difference it makes. Or do you posit that sophistication will always be low enough to make distinction from output easy?

*I* am religious enough to say that only humans have souls. But none of the “AI consciousness” people are religious enough to *admit* that their desire to label the GPU as “conscious” is actually a religious belief that they hold, closest to animism, often called “panpsychism”

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Sublimation Chamber ⚗️ @The_Sublimatory · Oct 6

I think it’s reasonable to believe that there’s no magic at work and since we don’t understand the physical processes that give rise to consciousness we can’t rule out that machine consciousness is possible.