alt Hacker News> Carbon atoms being conscious seems pretty alien to what is known, too.
Not if you're human, who typically don't define themselves as conscious carbon atoms unless they're being deeply pedantic.
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cwillu • today at 1:33 AM
Such pedantry is called for when the debate includes appeals to intuition about how silicon processing floating point numbers cannot possibly be conscious.
It's the same level of pedantry as calling an LLM "floating point operations" though