On: John Carmack and Rich Sutton partner to accelerate development of AGI

[specialist]

> Humans have inner subjective experience, self-awareness, and the ability to reflect on our own existence.

"In the end, we are self-perceiving, self-inventing, locked-in mirages that are little miracles of self-reference."

— Douglas Hofstadter, I Am a Strange Loop, p. 363

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_a_Strange_Loop

(Knowing nothing about AI, I have no idea how Hofstadter's philosophies have held up since.)