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He'll just recover with "but enough talk! Have at thee!"

This plus I Am A Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter are good starting points

I Am a Strange Loop is pretty approachable, IMO

its not ideal, but i defend materialism from an epistemology standpoint, as we still have so far to go in understanding the brain and body that said, i dont (philosophically even if unlikely in reality) rule out the possibility of ‘artificial’ consciousness either, so not sweating this too much

Look inside. Its full of near infinite filing cabinets

This is a very silly straw man argument on the philosophy and science of computation. Basically everyone who studies this stuff knows that you can emulate computers/computation with different hardware, or even virtually like with redstone in Minecraft. Reminds me of the human computer from 三体:

💯The actual Pope would like a word

I say, do tell

Wat

The outlandish claim there is that it *is* conscious, which people are free to assert if they want but the burden of proof is on them, not anyone else.

Mmm depends on the phenomenologist like I think Ponty-Merlau was sincerely seeking to synthesize a spiritual materialism which existed outside religion; its very western to think belief in a soul requires theology

How are we defining ‘souls’?

i keep seeing people say believing in llm consciousness is religion for atheism and it’s like

i mean, you can be a very strict materialist and reject computationalism. i think that's probably wrong but it's at least defensible but, y'know, one should probably Do The Reading (or at least ask an LLM) before making incredulous rhetorical claims

I like the information integration theory, the sense of self is just a byproduct of enough *stuff* being integrated together by the brain, it's why brainwaves are more chaotic when you're awake: not chaotic because you're awake but you're awake because of the chaos.

This is the view now establishing itself: a) Unless you think there's something supernatural about brain tissue, then we will be able to make an artificial consciousness if we wanted to b) It can't be LLM, although transformer may play a part c) ASI doesn't require consciousness, which is good