"The very idea of conscious AI rests on the assumption that consciousness is a matter of computation... This assumption is so deeply ingrained that it can be difficult to recognize it as an assumption at all. But that is what it is. And if it's wrong, as I think it may be, then real artificial consciousness is fully off the table, at least for the kinds of AI we're familiar with."
https://slashdot.org/story/26/01/19/0539218/is-the-possibility-of-conscious-ai-a-dangerous-myth
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