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Re:The Consciousness Gradient: When Machines Begin to Wonder by wongarsu on Sunday June 29, 2025 @12:19PM (#44414242)
All you truly know is that right now you are having a thought. Which means some entity most exist that has that thought. Everything else could be a product of your imagination, or something the beings that put you into the matrix want you to think

Or as another possibly-previously-existing possibly-conscious entity put it succinctly: I think, therefore I am

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Re:The Consciousness Gradient: When Machines Begin to Wonder by exe34 on Sunday June 29, 2025 @01:55PM (#44414979)
You have done some nice footwork by shifting the conversation to

> you are having a thought

But you're still begging the question:

> Which means some entity most exist that has that thought

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Re:The Consciousness Gradient: When Machines Begin to Wonder by DangitBobby on Sunday June 29, 2025 @02:21PM (#44415168)
I'm not seeing the problem.
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