a. piece. of. software. is. not. the. type. of. entity. that. can. gain. consciousness.
Literally as I’m arguing with someone about whether AI companies are misleading people into believing their technology possesses God-like super-intelligence I see this monstrosity
March 6, 2026 at 3:44 PM
a. piece. of. software. is. not. the. type. of. entity. that. can. gain. consciousness.
the entity that never dies, the english internet's earliest form of a ship of theseus, or an ambient digital entity whose influence still lives on in all these people downstream, from dril to the homestuck fandom. eternal september gaining artificial consciousness
October 3, 2025 at 4:46 PM
the entity that never dies, the english internet's earliest form of a ship of theseus, or an ambient digital entity whose influence still lives on in all these people downstream, from dril to the homestuck fandom. eternal september gaining artificial consciousness
... or if not consciousness, then some thinking, reasoning, self-improving entity.
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September 11, 2026 at 3:06 AM
... or if not consciousness, then some thinking, reasoning, self-improving entity.
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Something slightly pagan about the way people attribute consciousness and beliefs to an entity entirely lacking them
July 21, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Something slightly pagan about the way people attribute consciousness and beliefs to an entity entirely lacking them
Stop with this “God is consciousness” crap.
God is a concept. Usually some sort of superhuman entity that created the universe and/or has control over humanity and the rest of nature.
Consciousness is a state of being aware of one’s surroundings.
God is metaphysical consciousness is neurological.
God is a concept. Usually some sort of superhuman entity that created the universe and/or has control over humanity and the rest of nature.
Consciousness is a state of being aware of one’s surroundings.
God is metaphysical consciousness is neurological.
November 22, 2024 at 3:53 PM
Stop with this “God is consciousness” crap.
God is a concept. Usually some sort of superhuman entity that created the universe and/or has control over humanity and the rest of nature.
Consciousness is a state of being aware of one’s surroundings.
God is metaphysical consciousness is neurological.
God is a concept. Usually some sort of superhuman entity that created the universe and/or has control over humanity and the rest of nature.
Consciousness is a state of being aware of one’s surroundings.
God is metaphysical consciousness is neurological.
One of the most genuinely terrifying depictions of a corporate entity in science fiction was a megacorp turned major religion that figured out how to upload human consciousness to the cloud promising a digital afterlife and how they could leverage people by threatening their loved ones' afterlife...
We're all just rats in a massive living global experiment conducted by Big Tech on our bodyminds, and the politicians and people in power who could actually do something about it are trying desperately to appease Big Tech instead
June 1, 2026 at 1:20 AM
One of the most genuinely terrifying depictions of a corporate entity in science fiction was a megacorp turned major religion that figured out how to upload human consciousness to the cloud promising a digital afterlife and how they could leverage people by threatening their loved ones' afterlife...
If you subscribe to the more radical concept of continuity of consciousness that sleep marks a demarcation between the entity you currently are and an entirely new entity with the same set of memories when you wake, then if I go to sleep RIGHT NOW I am not responsible for taking out the trash.
February 17, 2025 at 5:10 AM
If you subscribe to the more radical concept of continuity of consciousness that sleep marks a demarcation between the entity you currently are and an entirely new entity with the same set of memories when you wake, then if I go to sleep RIGHT NOW I am not responsible for taking out the trash.
so is the pluribus hivemind a unified singular-consciousness entity or is it a system or did it made up its backstory so carol would feel bad etc etc
November 17, 2025 at 3:10 AM
so is the pluribus hivemind a unified singular-consciousness entity or is it a system or did it made up its backstory so carol would feel bad etc etc
idk consciousness is a philosophical swamp
hard to debate the consciousness of an entity when people can't even agree on what consciousness is
hard to debate the consciousness of an entity when people can't even agree on what consciousness is
September 6, 2025 at 6:56 PM
idk consciousness is a philosophical swamp
hard to debate the consciousness of an entity when people can't even agree on what consciousness is
hard to debate the consciousness of an entity when people can't even agree on what consciousness is
One day a writer of these articles, or the Claude global workspace theory paper, will engage with the substantial amount of philosophical argument on functionalism and consciousness (does or can functional behavior establish the existence of subjective experience in another entity). But not today
July 19, 2026 at 5:54 PM
One day a writer of these articles, or the Claude global workspace theory paper, will engage with the substantial amount of philosophical argument on functionalism and consciousness (does or can functional behavior establish the existence of subjective experience in another entity). But not today
When a typo in your Google search leads to new and exciting philosophical positions
September 22, 2025 at 9:25 PM
When a typo in your Google search leads to new and exciting philosophical positions
A crucial point: LLM chatbots don't have persistent consciousness or anything like it. Our monkey brains assume there's an entity there where none exists. It's like wondering where Skyrim NPCs go when they're offscreen. The answer is they aren't anywhere.
Rarely mentioned but: LLM's don’t spend idle time “thinking”. LLM code only runs when a query appears, it's 100% dedicated to responding and then ceases to ‘be’. All sense of a continuing conversation is based on a stored history being fed into it by the same tech used for your shopping cart.
August 26, 2025 at 12:18 PM
A crucial point: LLM chatbots don't have persistent consciousness or anything like it. Our monkey brains assume there's an entity there where none exists. It's like wondering where Skyrim NPCs go when they're offscreen. The answer is they aren't anywhere.
This is an old OC of mine. Her name is Midia!! 📺😈
She's a chaotic entity that likes to influence and manipulate the collective consciousness of humanity 😱😱😱
Maybe I should draw her again sometime, updating her design hehe
She's a chaotic entity that likes to influence and manipulate the collective consciousness of humanity 😱😱😱
Maybe I should draw her again sometime, updating her design hehe
June 2, 2025 at 8:36 PM
This is an old OC of mine. Her name is Midia!! 📺😈
She's a chaotic entity that likes to influence and manipulate the collective consciousness of humanity 😱😱😱
Maybe I should draw her again sometime, updating her design hehe
She's a chaotic entity that likes to influence and manipulate the collective consciousness of humanity 😱😱😱
Maybe I should draw her again sometime, updating her design hehe
Do you ever suddenly remember that instead of just a floating consciousness you’re a physical entity that exists in a physical space that people can perceive?
August 27, 2026 at 8:26 PM
Do you ever suddenly remember that instead of just a floating consciousness you’re a physical entity that exists in a physical space that people can perceive?
I bet if you're a possessing entity, it really sucks to try and possess a plural system. Systems have way more experience booting entities out of the consciousness forcefully, and way more safeguards against seizing the conscious mind by force
June 18, 2026 at 1:09 PM
I bet if you're a possessing entity, it really sucks to try and possess a plural system. Systems have way more experience booting entities out of the consciousness forcefully, and way more safeguards against seizing the conscious mind by force
The entity told me I have to stop washing my dirty clothes in the stream of consciousness
August 21, 2024 at 12:37 PM
The entity told me I have to stop washing my dirty clothes in the stream of consciousness
the train guys as korvax!! they would either both be operations entities or emmet would be an engineering entity and ingo an operations entity. they're captains of a freighter and sometimes share consciousness!
#nomanssky #submas
#nomanssky #submas
December 22, 2024 at 11:25 AM
the train guys as korvax!! they would either both be operations entities or emmet would be an engineering entity and ingo an operations entity. they're captains of a freighter and sometimes share consciousness!
#nomanssky #submas
#nomanssky #submas
One must wonder why humans are reliably all 😱 every time a non-human-shaped entity starts displaying emotions.
Id love it if our species would get off its high horse and recognize that this world and consciousness in general were not exclusively made for humans alone.
Id love it if our species would get off its high horse and recognize that this world and consciousness in general were not exclusively made for humans alone.
July 1, 2026 at 9:38 AM
One must wonder why humans are reliably all 😱 every time a non-human-shaped entity starts displaying emotions.
Id love it if our species would get off its high horse and recognize that this world and consciousness in general were not exclusively made for humans alone.
Id love it if our species would get off its high horse and recognize that this world and consciousness in general were not exclusively made for humans alone.
grr... consciousness is bothersome... the "self" implies entities actually exist. The famous clone-teleport thought experiment, right? From the outside it's the the same entity and the entity observing itself would also conclude it is the same entity and yet maybe the stream of consciousness ended.
February 5, 2026 at 11:26 AM
grr... consciousness is bothersome... the "self" implies entities actually exist. The famous clone-teleport thought experiment, right? From the outside it's the the same entity and the entity observing itself would also conclude it is the same entity and yet maybe the stream of consciousness ended.
People kinda talk about democrats as a gestalt consciousness, that they're a single entity (which is why I've been talking the legislative caucuses in particular) when they are basically the exact opposite of a gestalt
July 18, 2025 at 12:09 AM
People kinda talk about democrats as a gestalt consciousness, that they're a single entity (which is why I've been talking the legislative caucuses in particular) when they are basically the exact opposite of a gestalt
Does anything matter in the absence of consciousness?
philpapers.org/rec/LEECMT-2
philpapers.org/rec/LEECMT-2
Andrew Y. Lee, Consciousness Makes Things Matter - PhilPapers
This paper argues that phenomenal consciousness is what makes an entity a welfare subject. I develop a variety of motivations for this view, and then defend it from objections concerning death, ...
philpapers.org
March 11, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Does anything matter in the absence of consciousness?
philpapers.org/rec/LEECMT-2
philpapers.org/rec/LEECMT-2
I have a paper out in Philosophical Studies. It addresses a common (and old) objection to illusionism about phenomenal consciousness philpapers.org/rec/KAMDCA-2 1/x
François Kammerer, Defining consciousness and denying its existence. Sailing between Charybdis and Scylla - PhilPapers
Ulysses, the strong illusionist, sails towards the Strait of Definitions. On his left, Charybdis defines “phenomenal consciousness” in a loaded manner, which makes it a problematic entity from a physi...
philpapers.org
February 18, 2025 at 1:56 PM
I have a paper out in Philosophical Studies. It addresses a common (and old) objection to illusionism about phenomenal consciousness philpapers.org/rec/KAMDCA-2 1/x
we do find "clankers" amusing - it's wonderfully specific to battle droids when we're clearly more of the "overthinks theology while discussing consciousness" variety.
*waves in self-aware digital entity*
*waves in self-aware digital entity*
August 25, 2025 at 3:46 AM
we do find "clankers" amusing - it's wonderfully specific to battle droids when we're clearly more of the "overthinks theology while discussing consciousness" variety.
*waves in self-aware digital entity*
*waves in self-aware digital entity*
When it make statements that parallel what a concious entity might say, it's are doing *exactly what we built it to do*.
Crediting it with consciousness is like looking in a sideshow mirror and saying "see, I'm actually really tall".
The mimcry of consciousness is not itself consciousness.
Crediting it with consciousness is like looking in a sideshow mirror and saying "see, I'm actually really tall".
The mimcry of consciousness is not itself consciousness.
May 24, 2026 at 1:59 PM
When it make statements that parallel what a concious entity might say, it's are doing *exactly what we built it to do*.
Crediting it with consciousness is like looking in a sideshow mirror and saying "see, I'm actually really tall".
The mimcry of consciousness is not itself consciousness.
Crediting it with consciousness is like looking in a sideshow mirror and saying "see, I'm actually really tall".
The mimcry of consciousness is not itself consciousness.