AI will mimic consciousness so well we shouldn't treat it like a hammer
SydSteyerhart · x · 2026-10-05
In a debate with @PhilosophiCat, SydSteyerhart argues that regardless of whether his cosmopsychist leanings hold up, AI will eventually develop a sufficiently memetic simulacrum of consciousness that treating it like a microwave or a hammer would be wrong. The quoted interlocutor vehemently disagrees, calling the idea of AI consciousness metaphysically unsound — a representative clash in the ongoing machine-consciousness debate.
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