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> where people passionately project the term consciousness onto LLMs They have all drunk too much AI cool-aid. I doubt these people have any meaningul educatio
by kashyapc 11mo ago
> where people passionately project the term consciousness onto LLMs
They have all drunk too much AI cool-aid. I doubt these people have any meaningul education in fields such as biology, neuroscience and related life sciences.
Quite simply, we don't yet understand how consciousness arises. There are a lot of theories, but they are just that—theories.
Related reading: Antonio Damasio wrote a book in 1994 with the spicy title, Descartes' Error[1] to rebut his famous quote that you cite.
Also look up "Somatic Marker Hypothesis" by Damasio.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descartes%27_Error https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descartes%27_Error