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Re:Tests for Consciousness in Humans and Beyond by naasking on Monday March 18, 2024 @12:56PM (#39746917)
> It seems like your functional theory of consciousness is "thing that produces plausible English output," which is, I might gently suggest, a bit flawed.

My functional theory of consciousness is that it's not at all implausible that any system capable of conversing intelligently might be conscious, which is perfectly reasonable.

> Why is ChatGPT "conscious" for you but DALL-E is not?

I never claimed DALL-E was not conscious. It very well could be as well, just in a different way than ChatGPT.

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Re:Tests for Consciousness in Humans and Beyond by ForHackernews on Monday March 18, 2024 @03:25PM (#39748825)
This is like the argument from magic, no? For you, any sufficiently complex system that responds to language might be conscious? Are babies less conscious than ChatGPT to you?
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