AI consciousness debate: IIT critique and the case for 'alien-style' machine consciousness
coherence · x · 2026-10-21
A debate on AI consciousness is circulating: kskS argues that intelligence ≠ consciousness is no evidence against machine consciousness, that "algorithms on silicon" oversimplifies LLM internals, and that IIT wrongly treats LLMs as feed-forward when causation in operation is multi-scale and recurrent. HamidrezaJamal9 extends the argument with math to suggest physically embodied AI consciousness is possible — and that its form would differ from human consciousness much like hypothetical alien consciousness would.
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