Scobleizer spars over Cortical Labs: why living neurons deserve more moral weight than silicon
Scobleizer · x · 2026-10-10
Debating Cortical Labs' biological computing, @tetrisgm challenges Scobleizer's 'melted sand' dismissal: carbon atoms don't feel pain either—if a system is programmed to think and feel like us, the substrate shouldn't matter. What makes biological matter capable of subjective experience while silicon is categorically excluded? Scobleizer counters that living matter is 'alive' and 'unique': every chip off a line is identical, biology never is.
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