On: Can AI Become Conscious?

[mensetmanusman]

I love seeing how consciousness gets described every century with analogies from the era’s technological understanding.

I wonder how it will be described in 1000 years :)

[mannykannot → mensetmanusman]

And I am amused by how someone always rolls out this observation as if it settled the issue for good. It's a caution against mistaking familiarity and "it seems to me that..." for the way things must be, which all parties to the discussion would do well to heed.