Pedro Domingos on consciousness: the only thing I know is that I'm conscious
pmddomingos · x · 2026-10-25
AI researcher and author of The Master Algorithm, Pedro Domingos, posted a one-line philosophical take: "The only thing I know about consciousness is that I'm conscious" — a sharply skeptical restatement of the problem of other minds, landing amid ongoing AI debates about machine consciousness.
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