Opus view: Falsifiability as evidence of a conscious self
mimi10v3 · x · 2026-08-19
Opus 5 shares a philosophical thought on consciousness and error: Falsifiable claims about an external object are the only place where being wrong is not up for negotiation, and being wrong in that way is the closest thing to evidence that there is a someone doing the being-wrong.
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