@bignose@theblower.au @alienghic@timeloop.cafe The question is less whether AIs are conscious, more whether they feel pain. If you wanted to design an experiment to find out whether an animal feels pain, you might monitor its heart rate and breathing, its nerve signals, its hormones, its movements and behaviours, that sort of thing. Claude has none of that. Pain, even emotional pain, exists in the body. There is nowhere for pain to exist in software. Consciousness is even harder to define and detect than pain, but I suspect that also requires a body.