Philosophy pushback on 'AI can never be conscious' via Benjamin's aura
yeastsplainer · x · 2026-08-21
A philosophical reply to Nora Belrose's claim that AI can never develop consciousness, sentience, or moral status no matter how intelligent. The author notes the stance echoes Benjamin's concept of "aura" — which Baudrillard argued was corroded by replicas and mass production — and frames insistence on the irreplicability of genuine human consciousness as recapitulating the feudal order's resistance to the "counterfeiting of the real."
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