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Check out my book Being You, and my prize-winning essay The Mythology of Conscious AI.

Anil Seth's essay on biological naturalism (in opposition to the possibility of AI consciousness) is an interesting counterpoint, which of course drew lots of commentary and disagreement. A large collection of responses is now available with the article:

Very good company for "Other Minds" in this list of 10 by the @SundayGuardian. Classics by Hawking, Dennett, @kahneman_daniel. @bgreene gets 2!
Newer books also by @carlorovelli, R. Sapolsky, @davideagleman & @anilkseth.

"AlphaFold and Claude are very similar, but we don't worry that AlphaFold will become conscious . . . the fact that we worry about it for Claude says more about us than about it."