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bad argument that i'm very tired of. some might say that current/former world leaders also exhibit this property. not getting political but just because "math fucked up sometimes produces bad results" does not invalidate the idea that consciousness can emerge from a pile of biological or digital neurons.


I’m tired of the extremely tenuous analogies that tie computer bugs to human behavior.

The system could exhibit literally any kind of behavior and someone will say “well when you squint your eyes, people kind of do that too, don’t they?”


It's so obnoxious to see people talk about us like the brain is a machine that is well understood.


What's your definition of "consciousness"?




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