VIKARE@vikare06
The philosopher in question:
"You see, the question everyone asks me, ‘Slavoj, can machines be conscious?’ is already the wrong question, the ideological trap! Consciousness is not some nice software upgrade you install after enough training data. Consciousness is the symptom of a fundamental failure. It is the crack in the symbolic order, the traumatic Real that refuses to be reduced to code. An AI that ‘wakes up’ and says ‘Cogito ergo sum’ would be like a perfectly functioning toilet suddenly starting to write poetry about its own excrement (technically impressive, but deeply perverse). We don’t need machines that think, we already have billions of humans who think they think while actually repeating the same ideological script."
