@mattsheffield@mastodon.social
2026-10-21 22:44 UTC
Biological computation is states of being, not the discrete actions that digital computation is.
The computational instantiation of cellular collectives would still be fundamentally different from electronic neural networks even if the observed behaviors of biological neurons could somehow be duplicated.
I call the cognition biological entities build "somatic deixis." Here's a longer explanation of it: https://flux.community/matthew-sheffield/2026/01/its-like-this-why-perceptions-are-our-realities/
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@mattsheffield@mastodon.social 2026-10-21 22:45
While I certainly agree that chatbots are not conscious and do not possess persistent selfhoods, I think it's better to focus on the specific evidentiary claims put forward by chatbot consciousness believers than to claim that unproven theories (including my own) of consciousness exclude them from mentality.