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Re:It's Time to Stop Taking Sam Altman at His Word by cdchn on Saturday October 05, 2024 @02:37PM (#41751937)
>simply because interacting with the environment might be a prerequisite for developing consciousness.

We can't even define what consciousness is yet, let alone whats required to develop it.

Re:It's Time to Stop Taking Sam Altman at His Word by bad_user on Sunday October 06, 2024 @01:56AM (#41755063)
We may not be able to fully define Consciousness, but we can observe it in humans and develop falsifiable hypotheses, of which there are several.

Take a look at this paper: https://osf.io/preprints/osf/mtgn7