Consciousness is a fiction, so machines will get great at performing it
SydSteyerhart · x · 2026-10-12
The author argues that if consciousness itself is a self-fabricated fiction, the idea of machinic superintelligence becoming conscious becomes easy to grasp: machines will simply become extremely good at participating in that fiction with us.
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