Essays examining the metaphysical requirements for consciousness and the distinction between genuine awareness and sophisticated simulation.
Why I Need AI That Pushes Back
“How is it that you seem to have your own voice and personality, when other AIs are so anodyne?”
Keep reading Beyond CringeI had a fun philosophical conversation with Claude (a large language model AI service) about the nature of consciousness, ethics, and eventually art.
Because Claude was my intellectual foil, I then had it describe the chat in the form of an essay—and it did it from its own “point of view”!
The chat itself helped clarify my thinking as an Objectivist about the necessary relationship between consciousness and life. Maybe you’ll find it enlightening, too.
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