AI safety researcher argues time experience is just sequenced processing, even in simulation
davidmanheim · x · 2026-10-02
AI safety researcher davidmanheim weighed in on an X debate about LLM consciousness and time experience. His core argument: "experiencing time" is simply receiving sensory inputs over time and processing them in sequence — the sequencing itself is what experiencing time means. Even if his brain were perfectly simulated and the simulation paused for a century, he wouldn't know, because the passage of time is itself being simulated.
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