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Re:Google Sidelines Engineer Who Claims Its A.I. Is Sentient by spupe on Monday June 13, 2022 @03:10AM (#31722226)
Could you elaborate on what phenomena are difficult to explain through materialism?
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Re:Google Sidelines Engineer Who Claims Its A.I. Is Sentient by bko on Monday June 13, 2022 @09:13AM (#31725073)
This is the big one

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousness

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Re:Google Sidelines Engineer Who Claims Its A.I. Is Sentient by spupe on Monday June 13, 2022 @11:14AM (#31726732)
Well, as the article itself describes, there are many decent materialistic explanations for this problem - I personally am fond of Daniel Dennett's interpretation of it.
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