Researchers blast Nature's consciousness editorial for circular reasoning against machines
cephaloform · x · 2026-10-20
A Nature editorial argues LLMs can mimic thought and feeling uncannily well, but intelligence alone isn't enough for subjective experience. Critics call the piece weak: half is "it would suck if we had to treat AI as conscious," the other half lists theories of consciousness that deliberately exclude machines, then infers they're likely true because there are many of them.
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