[qsera]

Yea, you said it. It is the feeling of understanding and feeling/sensing implies consciousness. Why does it matter? I don't know. All I know is that it is not the same thing, because a chunk of metal cannot feel. So I don't want it to be called by the same name.

When AI marketing (ab)uses the word, it is to project the appearance of human equivalence. And I don't like to fall for it.

[joquarky]

Psychopaths don't feel. Are they conscious?

[qsera]

They don't? If they stub their toe will they feel the pain? can they "see"? can they "hear"?