Theodore A Hoppe
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Topics of interest: unconsciousness, confabulation, neuroscience, animal consciousness, psychology, relationship models, etc etc
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July 31, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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July 9, 2025 at 2:49 AM
The real issue might be that we anthropomorphize machines by projecting our language (e.g., "learn," "understand," "think") onto them.
Just as importantly, we project the question of consciousness onto them, even though we barely understand it in ourselves.
Just as importantly, we project the question of consciousness onto them, even though we barely understand it in ourselves.
July 2, 2025 at 3:18 AM
The real issue might be that we anthropomorphize machines by projecting our language (e.g., "learn," "understand," "think") onto them.
Just as importantly, we project the question of consciousness onto them, even though we barely understand it in ourselves.
Just as importantly, we project the question of consciousness onto them, even though we barely understand it in ourselves.
This leads to a dilemma:
If consciousness requires feeling, and
If feeling requires a living body,
Then, machines cannot be conscious, at least not in the same sense.
If consciousness requires feeling, and
If feeling requires a living body,
Then, machines cannot be conscious, at least not in the same sense.
July 2, 2025 at 3:18 AM
This leads to a dilemma:
If consciousness requires feeling, and
If feeling requires a living body,
Then, machines cannot be conscious, at least not in the same sense.
If consciousness requires feeling, and
If feeling requires a living body,
Then, machines cannot be conscious, at least not in the same sense.
But these are descriptive rather than explanatory. They gesture at the phenomenology—the "what it’s like"—without explaining how or why that experience arises.
July 2, 2025 at 3:15 AM
But these are descriptive rather than explanatory. They gesture at the phenomenology—the "what it’s like"—without explaining how or why that experience arises.