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Re:Google fires engineer who called its AI sentient by whittingtonaaon on Friday July 22, 2022 @09:35PM (#32199318)
But science has never said anything about it at all. The subject matter of science is the externally observable and consciousness is an internal category.
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Re:Google fires engineer who called its AI sentient by mtlmtlmtlmtl on Friday July 22, 2022 @10:10PM (#32199530)
Are you just gonna keep repeating that or do you have an actual argument to support this claim?
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Re:Google fires engineer who called its AI sentient by whittingtonaaon on Saturday July 23, 2022 @12:09AM (#32200264)
You’re right. I’m being repetitive. But it’s not really an argument. All I’m doing is saying the definition of science, at least as it’s historically been defined. The only bit of argument I have there is that I think by forgetting this definition we’ve wandered astray.
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