More fundamentally, Claude is a computer program on silicon, while we are living creatures.
The possibility of conscious AI assumes consciousness is a matter of computation that can be implemented in any medium.
But brains are not just computers made of meat; you cannot separate software from hardware in brains.
The computer is a metaphor for the brain, and confusing the map with the territory leads to trouble.
The new research shows that brains and computers can find similar solutions to problems, just as flight is possible with wings or jet engines.
But the information processing in Claude is no more likely to produce consciousness than a weather simulation is to generate a real hurricane.
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AI systems are powerful, but we should remember how different we are from our creations. Overestimating machines underestimates ourselves.
