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amanaplanacanal 5 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: It is time to give up the dualism introduced by th...

This is exactly my take also. Qualia and consciousness are the same thing. I have it, other humans appear to have it, other mammals appear to have it, LLMs don't.

fssys 5 months ago | [–]

you think qualia are the soul then!

amanaplanacanal 5 months ago | | [–]

I don't know what you mean by the word soul. I associate it with dualist religious thought. But maybe you mean something else?

trick-or-treat 5 months ago | [–]

Except that you don't know LLMs don't. For all we know we're torturing them.

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