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t_von_doomyesterday at 10:08 AM1 replyview on HN

I agree. To further ask, why is your training data objectively real and qualifies you for consciousness?

Is a deaf or blind person not conscious because they don't share your training data? If a deaf person reads about sounds, their experience of them is moot?

If an alien with a greater array of senses then us exists, are we therefore not conscious?


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DonaldFiskyesterday at 10:31 AM

People aren't just consciousness, they're conscious of things. Of course a deaf or blind person is conscious, even if they've been deaf or blind since birth. But they aren't conscious of hearing or seeing things, and if you ask them they'll tell you that.

I'm not conscious of magnetic fields, or ultraviolet light, but other animals are, and no amount of study will overcome that deficit.

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