Functionalists Invoke MoE Sparse Activation Analogy in Consciousness Debate

In an X debate on consciousness and compute, Josh Purtell argued a functionalist view: one should assess the entire computational graph rather than momentary activations, noting a 112B-A3B sparse MoE model generally outperforms a 3B dense model, an analogy he extends to brains and consciousness.

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