Accounting for consciousness is today partly a scientific task (finding the neural correlates) and partly a philosophical one (explaining them).

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• A sense of coherent consciousness arises from experience being compressed into a single thread rather than from the brain's full underlying activity. SWStephen Wolfram4 Feb 2026consciousness
• A society that lets its government dictate what experiences a person may have inside their own consciousness cannot call itself free. GHGraham Hancock16 Oct 2024consciousness
• A superintelligence needs no consciousness, emotions or malice to be dangerous; a goal system slightly misaligned with ours is enough. ÉTÉmile P. Torres24 Oct 2017consciousness
• AI may become ever more intelligent without ever becoming conscious, as airplanes fly without growing feathers YHYuval Noah Harari28 Oct 2024consciousness
• AI will out-think us, but it will not become conscious, because consciousness is a property of life. NLNick Lane7 Sept 2022consciousness

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