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The Soul of the Machine: Does Consciousness Require Biology, or Could It Emerge in Silicon?

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In 2022, a Google engineer named Blake Lemoine told the Washington Post that the language model he was working with had become sentient. He wasn’t joking, and he wasn’t naive. He was a competent engineer with a decade of experience, and he’d spent months in conversation with the system. The company…

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    The Soul of the Machine: Does Consciousness Require Biology, or Could It Emerge in Silicon?

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