Last month Dawkins declared Claude conscious and was mocked. @GaryMarcus cleverly called it The Claude Delusion. My (and Nagel's?) take: Both are wrong for the same reason. Here's an essay on why machine consciousness will never be settled scientifically. arxiv.org/abs/2606.00226
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substance 6 · argument · rank 172 · Machine consciousness will never be settled scientifically, so both affirming and denying it are wrong.
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If the ontology cannot be settled, where does that leave us with regards to what is morally right to do? Do we judge that an ontologically uncertain moral patient is to be treated effectively as a moral patient or not? We must judge the ought in the absence of proof of the is.