If a multimodal AI accurately reports light vs dark, why not claim perpetual inner darkness?
yeastsplainer · x · 2026-09-03
A thought experiment on machine consciousness: imagine a multimodal AI that accurately reports whether it sees light or dark when a switch is flicked. If it's truly an insentient philosophical zombie, why doesn't it report an all-pervasive inner darkness instead? The post probes the tension between accurate behavior and the 'nothing inside' assumption.
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