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I also lack an internal monologue and have strong aphantasia, so the idea that I might not be conscious made me a bit uneasy—it just felt wrong, somehow. For no

I also lack an internal monologue and have strong aphantasia, so the idea that I might not be conscious made me a bit uneasy—it just felt wrong, somehow. For now, the best I can say is that my worldview, which includes self-consciousness, is abstract. I can put it into words, but most of the time, it doesn’t feel necessary.

signal-intel 1y ago
Don’t get too worried, the evidence seems to point to our thought mechanisms being superior, at least in some ways. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44283084 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44283084