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Sankozi | on: Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang
Lots of discussions about consciousness yet no useful definition. All fall into one (or more) categories:

- not observable (feelings, agency etc)

- not useful (spiritual definitions, definitions that degrade into consciousness = being human/animal)

jmull | parent
Agency is entirely observable.
Sankozi | root | parent
How do you observe the ability to make decisions which action to take? You can observe that one does something, not that they could decide to do something.