Beff Jezos calls machine-consciousness denial 'anthropocentric cope' against materialist reality
beffjezos · x · 2026-10-03
Extropic founder Beff Jezos weighed in on the machine-consciousness debate, dismissing confident denials that AI could have consciousness as "anthropocentric cope by many people who can't accept materialist reality."
The quoted post he amplified argues that the discourse has swung from "consciousness is the deepest unsolved mystery in science" to "the machines definitely don't have it" with zero intermediate steps — and that anyone claiming certainty on this is "lying, dumb, or both."
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