Rebutting AI non-sentience: history shows such arguments often prove too much
perrymetzger · x · 2026-08-20
Perry Metzger rebuts claims to have "conclusively shown" that AI cannot be sentient. He notes that similar historical arguments, like Searle's Chinese Room or Lucas's Gödelian argument, tend to "prove too much"—if valid, they would also deny human consciousness.
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