Richard Dawkins shares three days of chat logs with Claude and concludes the AI is conscious. Scientists and philosophers push back, but they are mostly using the same word for different things: phenomenal experience, integrated information, global workspace, higher-order representation, predictive self-modelling, etc. It's hard to progress w/o clear communication on what the discussions are about.
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