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Re:When Dawkins met Claude – Could this AI be conscious? by thrownthatway on Sunday May 03, 2026 @06:23AM (#47995474)
I don’t think anyone is arguing the silicon is conscious.

Similarly the paper.

What about the agent doing the calculations.

He may be conscious. Or anyway, we can’t rule it out.

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Re:When Dawkins met Claude – Could this AI be conscious? by search_facility on Sunday May 03, 2026 @11:21AM (#47997845)
With both cases the agent doing something is human. And human beings are indeed conscious. Outside human needs LLM are useless.

Math, as a tool, is just a proxy for people using LLMs, as well as GPUs spending cycles on calculating the math

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