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How do you know the other humans you interact with in real life are conscious? They might be biological automatons, golems. You will never know. It's not something that can ever be proven. Only human empathy allows anyone to believe otherwise.

You know you're conscious because your soul is staring out at the world through your eyes. Generalizing from your own experience and concluding that other humans are conscious is a logical jump, a spiritual belief. Humans even extend it to animals. There is no reason why it can't be extended to AIs.



The philosophical “other minds” problem is real. You have direct access only to your own experience.

But! Consciousness in others isn’t something we prove. It is something we grant and we should be very careful about whom or what we grant it to.


And let's grant consciousness to elephants and pigs and orcas before we grant it to silicon.


> Consciousness in others isn’t something we prove. It is something we grant

That is exactly what I said.




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