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Even for "normal" humans, the point is that consciousness is by definition unobservable from the outside, so everyone else but you can be un-conscious and you w
by andrepd 2y ago
Even for "normal" humans, the point is that consciousness is by definition unobservable from the outside, so everyone else but you can be un-conscious and you would have no way of telling. It's the p-zombies thought experiment.
- ben_w 2y ago> so everyone else but you can be un-conscious and you would have no way of telling Indeed, though* all of us should be confident that there is at least a second conscious being besides ourselves, the one who coined the term. * ignoring A J Ayer for a moment, even though "there is a thought now" would be the only form of consciousness that a current LLM could possibly have if it had any at all