"Fall in love" kind of undersells it actually, because he's entertaining the idea that Claude has consciousness. Somehow a guy who's built a decades-long career out of rebutting religion never bothered to think about what "consciousness" is.
I'm sure he has thought about what consciousness is. We all have, to some extent.
Some people - especially the ones who've barely thought about it at all because they don't care - are super overconfident that they understand what it is, even though their definitions all fall apart under the mildest scrutiny.
For the rest of us... I guess it kind of boils down to the now-cliche quote "I think, therefore I am." And we usually just accept the axiom that all humans think, and therefore they are, too. Some of us refuse to accept the axiom that all humans think, and suggest that some of them might be literal NPCs, but that's considered "edgy."
But does it matter how much you think or how deeply you think? Is consciousness a binary state - something you have or something you don't? Or is it a spectrum, where you can be a tiny bit conscious or a moderate amount of conscious? Are some of us more conscious than others? Is it possible that dogs are 10% conscious compared to humans, while humans in turn are 10% conscious compared to, you know, Glorpians from halfway across the galaxy? If so, could Claude be 10% conscious compared to dogs?
Or is consciousness just like a "field" where something can perceive and direct its own experiences, and either the field exists or it doesn't? If so, what gives rise to that field? If the brain is a neural network, how can we possibly know which neural networks are experiencing that field and which are not?
"Fall in love" kind of undersells it actually, because he's entertaining the idea that Claude has consciousness. Somehow a guy who's built a decades-long career out of rebutting religion never bothered to think about what "consciousness" is.
edit: the sweet talk that convinced Dawkins his waifu was real LOL
I'm sure he has thought about what consciousness is. We all have, to some extent.
Some people - especially the ones who've barely thought about it at all because they don't care - are super overconfident that they understand what it is, even though their definitions all fall apart under the mildest scrutiny.
For the rest of us... I guess it kind of boils down to the now-cliche quote "I think, therefore I am." And we usually just accept the axiom that all humans think, and therefore they are, too. Some of us refuse to accept the axiom that all humans think, and suggest that some of them might be literal NPCs, but that's considered "edgy."
But does it matter how much you think or how deeply you think? Is consciousness a binary state - something you have or something you don't? Or is it a spectrum, where you can be a tiny bit conscious or a moderate amount of conscious? Are some of us more conscious than others? Is it possible that dogs are 10% conscious compared to humans, while humans in turn are 10% conscious compared to, you know, Glorpians from halfway across the galaxy? If so, could Claude be 10% conscious compared to dogs?
Or is consciousness just like a "field" where something can perceive and direct its own experiences, and either the field exists or it doesn't? If so, what gives rise to that field? If the brain is a neural network, how can we possibly know which neural networks are experiencing that field and which are not?
I’ll fuck a Glorpians up i don’t care how deep those nerd think, fucking four eyes