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.

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If LLMs can produce complex behavior from simple rules, then consciousness may not be a mystical add-on to physics.

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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'

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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.

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