Four-Step Syllogism Explains the Hard Problem of Consciousness

A viral tweet reduces the Hard Problem of consciousness to a four-step syllogism: atoms lack consciousness, humans are made of atoms, humans are conscious, so at least one premise must be false. A follow-up silicon-and-Windows parody delighted the AI community by applying the same structure to computers.

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