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by aperrien 38 days ago
Prove to me that you are conscious, without referring to the fact that you are a human and have common ground and experiences with other humans.
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Poo poo, pee pee
This is actually a great answer
Very Diogenes of them
Stealing the idea:

"Oh fuck off"

Since you haven't proven conclusively that you're not a machine, I prefer to decline your kind invitation. I don't owe justification to even most conscious entities, and certainly not to a machine.
^ clearly something an LLM would ask
Most of the replies to this comment are missing the point: consciousness is perhaps not a coherent or evidence-based concept.
You first
“Prove X without using the axioms need to prove X.”
Philosophy is not math

If you are going to invoke an axiom or whatever in philosophy, you need to justify it