Machine consciousness debate: Purtell ranks sun, analog brain, and LLM by intuitive consciousness
JoshPurtell · x · 2026-10-04
A follow-up to Josh Purtell's machine-consciousness argument: analog LLMs resemble the Antikythera mechanism — decidedly not intuitively conscious — so a plausible functionalist reading exists that matches normie intuition, ranking: sun conscious? > analog brain conscious? >> LLMs not conscious.
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