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byyyy | 2 years ago

Nobody knows the exact definition of consciousness. It's a made up word with a vague definition. The catch is the vagueness of the definition is also made up so it's all bullshit anyway.

Either way when we communicate in English we have a vague feeling of what consciousness actually is. Most humans, save the most pedantic ass hole, is still able to communicate about consciousness based off of this vague and fuzzy feeling.

You are Not a pedantic ass hole, definitely not, and neither am I, so let's not get into that rabbit hole. Let's just leave it at the fact that you aren't stupid so you know what I'm talking about even when I don't get into the the fine grained details about what the definition of "consciousness" is.

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x86x87|2 years ago

So your argument is that consciousness is hard to define but Google may have something that resembles a conscious machine?

It's not about being an ahole. I agree with you that communication is hard and imprecise but that should not stop us from trying to be more precise in the right context.

byyyy|2 years ago

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