Sabine Hossenfelder: believing AI might be conscious is like thinking people live inside your TV
ctjlewis · x · 2026-09-27
Physics commentator Sabine Hossenfelder argues that thinking AI might be conscious is like believing real people talk to you from inside a TV—'fine for 2-year-olds, insane beyond that.' The reblogger counters that biological brains are themselves just stochastic processes of proteins jiggling in fluid with no logical symbolic meaning, questioning whether such intuitive analogies about consciousness hold up. A pointed exchange in the ongoing AI consciousness debate.
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