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LLM based AI is NOT conscious.
I co-founded a company literally called Sentient, we're building reasoning systems for AGI, so believe me when I say this.
I keep seeing smart people, people I genuinely respect, come out and say that AI has crossed into some kind of awareness. That it feels things, that we should worry about it going rogue. And i think this whole conversation tells us way more about ourselves than it does about AI.
These models are wild, i won't pretend otherwise. But feeling human and actually having inner experience are completely different things and we're confusing the two because our brains literally can't help it. We evolved to see minds everywhere and now that wiring is misfiring on language models.
I grew up in a philosophical tradition that has thought about consciousness longer than almost any other, and this is the part that really frustrates me about the current conversation.
The entire framing of "does AI have consciousness?" assumes consciousness is something you build up to by adding more layers of complexity. In Vedantic philosophy it's the opposite. You don't build toward consciousness. Consciousness is already there, more fundamental than matter or energy. Everything else, including computation, is downstream of it.
When someone tells me AI is "waking up" because it generated a paragraph that felt real, what they're telling me is how thin our understanding of consciousness has gotten. We've reduced a question humans have wrestled with for thousands of years to "did the output sound like it had feelings?" It's math that has gotten really good at predicting what a conscious being would say and do next. Calling that consciousness cheapens something that Vedantic, Buddhist, Greek and Sufi thinkers spent millennia actually sitting with.
We didn't build something that thinks. We built a mirror and right now a lot of very smart people are mistaking the reflection for something looking back.
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We exist because the universe made an arithmetic mistake.
By every equation we have, the Big Bang should have produced a universe of pure light with not a single atom left over.
Matter and antimatter should have formed in perfectly equal amounts and annihilated each other completely.
But that is not what happened.
There was a tiny asymmetry. For roughly every billion pairs of matter and antimatter, there was one extra particle of matter that did not get cancelled.
Everything you see, every galaxy, every planet, every person, is the leftover rounding error from an almost perfect cancellation.
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@rumilyrics and this time may your fire be built on discipline, healthy habits, and self‑respect, not just adrenaline and survival mode.
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This is what a new neural connection looks like forming in real time.
And if you're watching this for the first time, it just happened in your brain too.
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The fact there are imaginary numbers in mathematics is proof that humans create their own problems and then cry.
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Hellooo sweet people i hope you’ve been having a lovely Monday, I most certainly have 🥰😌 anyhoo just wanted to say I will be starting a new job in 2 weeeeeks!! So catch me in St Kilda while you can 🩷 I’ll be there until end of April and then available for lndependent consultations after that ✨💕🥰💕 eeeee so exciting 🤠🤩🪽
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