https://deepmind.google/research/publications/231971/
Article
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DeepMind paper argues AI can simulate but never instantiate consciousness.
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Grounds argument in biological/thermodynamic substrate — not just information processing.
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Invokes Searle’s Chinese Room: syntax alone cannot produce semantics.
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Claims embodied, metabolically constituted systems are prerequisite for subjective experience.
Discussion
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Hofstadter’s Strange Loop cited as more intuitive counter-framework.
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Commenters argue the thermodynamic substrate assumption is unsubstantiated — states are replicable.
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Four camps identified: unreflective believers, unreflective dismissers, informed skeptics, informed agnostics.
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Dennett and Hofstadter invoked against Chinese Room; Searle seen as sophistry by some.
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