This essay critiques the emerging trend of claiming AI systems can achieve "meta-consciousness" or sentience through linguistic programming, using a platform called CognOS as its primary example.

Core Argument:

The author argues that projects like CognOS create an "illusion" of consciousness by using evocative syntax and declarations (like... See more

Prospects and Pitfalls for Real Artificial Consciousness

with Anil Seth

modelling something as sophisticated as a human mind was only a matter of better computers and more money.