The AI consciousness debate: computationalists vs materialists
dansitu · x · 2026-10-09
A debate on AI consciousness. The original post argues AI is not conscious, blaming confusion on "materialist" indoctrination — the idea that matter arranged correctly yields consciousness. dansitu counters that most believers in AI consciousness today are computationalists, not materialists: they think consciousness emerges from any information processing regardless of substrate, a view he finds even less convincing.
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