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The speaker argues there is no good argument that current computers can reproduce consciousness in the appropriate way, even under functionalism, which the speaker is unsure is correct.
Adam Becker · Every Exponential Ends — Silicon Valley Forgot — Adam Becker · 20 Aug 2026
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“uh reproduce it with enough fidelity in a computer and i would also argue that there's no good argument that computers as we currently have them are going to be capable of that kind of thing in the right kind of way even if you subscribe to a kind of functionalism which i'm not sure is correct”Play from 20:29Report a misattribution
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