Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by ben_w 1276 days ago
The thought process is probably the same reason we're all telling ourselves LaMDA and GPT-3 can't be conscious:

Our subjective experience of reality constantly eludes our ability to explain in terms of any physical or informational processes, so every time a system becomes explicable, it leaves the domain of "things which might be self-aware".

Some people take this in the other direction and attribute a soul to everything, others go further and say that even our self awareness is an illusion.