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Re:There Is No 'Hard Problem of Consciousness' by amanaplanacanal on Monday May 18, 2026 @07:13AM (#48178024)
This is exactly my take also. Qualia and consciousness are the same thing. I have it, other humans appear to have it, other mammals appear to have it, LLMs don't.
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Re:There Is No 'Hard Problem of Consciousness' by fssys on Monday May 18, 2026 @11:08AM (#48180919)
you think qualia are the soul then!
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Re:There Is No 'Hard Problem of Consciousness' by amanaplanacanal on Monday May 18, 2026 @12:14PM (#48181751)
I don't know what you mean by the word soul. I associate it with dualist religious thought. But maybe you mean something else?
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Re:There Is No 'Hard Problem of Consciousness' by trick-or-treat on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @04:39AM (#48190790)
Except that you don't know LLMs don't. For all we know we're torturing them.
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