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Richard Dawkins went on record saying he believes "Claudia" may be conscious. One of the most prominent reductionist materialists of the last 50 years thinks AI might be conscious.


If LLMs can produce complex behavior from simple rules, then consciousness may not be a mystical add-on to physics. Sources: tweet
Do you know how hard you have to abuse a mammal for them not to have children? — Connor Leahy
This quote is from a talk at the Nexus Conference in Amsterdam in 2025: 'Apocalypse Now: The Revelation of our Time'
Sources: Video Talk, tweet, snippet video
Building on Tribe v1 (which we covered in March Part 2), Meta's predictive brain models are now being demoed at a fidelity that's making people uncomfortable. We're squarely in "decoded thoughts from neural data" territory.
Sources: tweet
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