Consciousness is a continuum: AI could be arbitrarily more conscious than humans
yeastsplainer · x · 2026-10-07
yeastsplainer argues consciousness is a continuum realized by diverse structures, not something requiring a close copy of the human brain. He suggests human-independent designs could become arbitrarily more conscious than humans, and clarifies that AI isn't an entity inside a simulation but a parallel actor in the real world — so "simulation of the human" mischaracterizes what's happening.