Consciousness clash: why Yudkowsky and Bentham's Bulldog are both internally consistent
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-09-20
teortaxesTex offers a reconciliation of the ongoing X debate between Yudkowsky and Bentham's Bulldog over consciousness: both are internally consistent. BB thinks almost all higher life—and probably insects—are conscious; Yudkowsky suspects even he himself may not be consistently conscious, and that pigs, babies, and beings incapable of complex word-processing lack consciousness. They simply start from different premises.
The quoted poster is sharper, arguing Yudkowsky wrongly equates consciousness as availability of subjective experience with certain intellectual processing—not a sound way to dunk on anyone else.
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