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Re:Is artificial consciousness achievable? Lessons from the ... by zero-sharp on Monday May 20, 2024 @08:17AM (#40414640)
I think I just experienced how much self-deception there is about the world. So it's not really an axiom. There's no shortage of metaphysical ideas from the past, from well-intentioned people who thought they could intuit the world, that we have had to throw out.
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Re:Is artificial consciousness achievable? Lessons from the ... by andrewflnr on Monday May 20, 2024 @11:47AM (#40416795)
> I think I just experienced how much self-deception there is about the world.

This is not actually a proof. It is, however, exactly the kind of soft reasoning that motivates reasonable axioms. I'm not saying it's a bad axiom, I'm saying you should know what you're doing. That way when you run into a domain where it doesn't apply very well, you know where and how to back up and restart.

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