• Feathercrown@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    9 hours ago

    We currently can’t even be sure that other humans are conscious. It’s an inherently internal experience, and we just have to rely on trusting other people’s accounts and “If I am, you probably are too” logic. Unfortunately neither of these approaches generalizes well to other species, or especially to AI.

    • blargh513@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      6 hours ago

      Buddhism would tell you that there is no “self” to speak of. Without a self how can there be consciousness?

      The edges of our reality have never been anything we can perceive. However, it seems that they’re far away enough such that we can do fun things like have buttsex and smoke drugs, so I’m ok with it.