The Abstraction Fallacy: Why AI Can Simulate but Not Instantiate Consciousness

Re:The Abstraction Fallacy: Why AI Can Simulate but Not Inst... by duped on Monday April 20, 2026 @03:53PM (#47839668)

I cannot express concisely how deeply I disagree with all of this.

It is not just uninteresting that computer programs can be written to accomplish information tasks, it's intellectually dishonest to anthropomorphize machines and algorithms to characterize it as consciousness.

> no one has built any benchmark that AI cannot solve

"Be human."

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Re:The Abstraction Fallacy: Why AI Can Simulate but Not Inst... by diablozzq on Monday April 20, 2026 @05:27PM (#47841059)

no one cares if LLMs are humans. They will never be by definition.

My point still stands

The crux of my argument is Consciousness is irrelevant to any AI debates. It’s not necessary to perform tasks we previously deemed only humans could do.

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