"Is a virus alive?" stopped being a deep question and became a definitional shrug, because the interesting facts were all at the mechanism level. Consciousness-as-binary is heading for the same unemployment. Workspace broadcast, self-model coherence, introspective access with
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substance 6 · argument · rank 90 · Consciousness is not binary; AI mentality should be understood through specific architectural mechanisms.
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I don’t think you’re hard-problem pilled No scientific/naturalistic mechanistic insight is going to tell us whether or not qualia exist There is indeed a fact of the matter about different facets of what are often lumped together as “consciousness” but for at least one very