[phs318u]

> Is it really psychosis for someone, who already thinks consciousness isn't supernatural, to think that consciousness isn't special enough to be out of reach of current primitive AI efforts?

This is what I also thought. By definition, a hard atheist must be a materialist which means that consciousness - no matter how it’s defined specifically - must be a product of a material configuration. Though I do think he’s fallen for the parrot and uses this belief to self-rationalise, it’s a valid position for a hard atheist/materialist to hold. In that case how do you test an AI for consciousness?

[harshreality]

Tell me how to test a human for consciousness, and I'll tell you how to test an LLM for it. I'm not even talking about people in comas. Give me an objective test that I can take into a retirement home and run on all the awake, alert, communicative individuals there, and conclude that they're all conscious.

[causal]

The same way you test the universe for gods. Hence the irony.