Machines can never be conscious: the literary canon and all engineering knowledge say so
Inframethod · x · 2026-10-20
Blogger Inframethod pushes back on @eschwitz's agnostic stance ("we don't know if machines can be conscious"), arguing that thinking machines might be conscious ignores both the entire literary canon on consciousness and all engineering knowledge, which has never produced a conscious machine — like asking what strong evidence we have the sun won't blow up tomorrow. His accompanying blog post "An Infamous Device" frames AI-consciousness skepticism via Dante's Tower of Babel, likening LLMs like LaMDA to a fancy See 'n Say toy.
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