The Magic in the Machine

But now, when my brain spontaneously forms a tiny sliver of a potentially interesting concept or idea, I can just shove a few sloppy words into a prompt and almost instantly get a fully reasoned, researched, and completed thought. Minimal organic thinking required. This has had a dramatic and profound effect on my brain. My thinking systems have at... See more

We are speaking apes, linguistic creatures through and through. So when GPT-5 or -6 will write the literary equivalent of War and Peace or The Lord of the Rings, it will be difficult to deny it sentience, particularly because of our inborn urge to attribute mind to other creatures. But we should, because it is all imitation. Its consciousness is as

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