By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/08/2026As a materialist, I'll happily stipulate to this. I think that everything we call "consciousness" is the result of a physical process occurring within our bodies (and *possibly* around them?). 9/ 2571
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/08/2026I think it's perfectly reasonable to imagine that someday we might create another physical process that produces the same effect. But that's not what the interviewer wanted to argue about. 10/ 2611
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/08/2026His point was that teaching more words to the word-guessing program would produce consciousness, an argument I always liken to "breeding horses to run faster and faster until one of them foals a locomotive." 11/ 116825
IntrepidGirlSleuth @annakeesey.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Yes—consciousness requires having a perceiving body, in the world, experiencing time. 030
