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visarga t1_j34sywj wrote

Reply to comment by turnip_burrito in I asked ChatGPT if it is sentient, and I can't really argue with its point by wtfcommittee

How do you define consciousness? I define it as "understanding". Ability to reason in new situations. The witness, or the judge that decides the actions we are going to take.

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turnip_burrito t1_j34xhjf wrote

If I have to use the word, I use it to mean just "qualia", but I usually don't use the word "consciousness" because other words are more productive imo.

I usually don't care what it means in a conversation, as long as it is clearly defined. The biggest problem with the word, imo, is different people have different definitions for it (ok as long as clarified), which causes long drawn out pseudo-deep conversations where two people are using the same word differently.

So your definition is fine (and interesting), thanks for sharing!

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