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by itsnowandnever 245 days ago
the penrose-lucas argument is the best bet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penrose%E2%80%93Lucas_argument

the basic idea being that either the human mind is NOT a computation at all (and it's instead spooky unexplainable magic of the universe) and thus can't be replicated by a machine OR it's an inconsistent machine with contradictory logic. and this is a deduction based on godel's incompleteness theorems.

but most people that believe AGI is possible would say the human mind is the latter. technically we don't have enough information today to know either way but we know the human mind (including memories) is fallible so while we don't have enough information to prove the mind is an incomplete system, we have enough to believe it is. but that's also kind of a paradox because that "belief" in unproven information is a cornerstone of consciousness.