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I'm not sure you have a proof of that to claim there is no point in theoretical discussion. He has a point, that current "AI" isn't conscious and so far there is no indication that it will be. It doesn't mean it can't happen either.

Basically we aren't up to "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" so far.



Have you heard of brain organoids?

A Google search yields "three-dimensional tissues that mimic the human brain and are grown in a lab"

The distinction between natural and what is man-made (aka artificial) is itself artificial.

We are learning how to recreate nature, whether from silicon or in 3D tissue or ab initio (google "synthetic life")


Mimicking brain doesn't necessarily make it conscious. So again, all of that proves nothing so far.


Brain organpids do not mimic the brain, unless you are blind and cannot google. They are the brain.




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