So before claiming AI can't be conscious because it's 'just a machine' â remember: your consciousness is also just neurons firing in precise physical locations.
The difference may be smaller than you think.
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Those who say AI can't be conscious because it's 'just a machine' should read Oliver Sacks' The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. A neurology book that will make you question everything about human consciousness.
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Sacks' patients had tiny, localized brain lesions. The result? A man who couldn't recognize his own wife's face. A woman who lost all sense of her own body. A man who forgot every moment of his life as it happened.
Your identity. Your perception. Your self. All physically wired.
@EleanorKonik Exactly. Itâs basically the Feynman Technique: if you canât explain your strategy to the "duck", you donât understand it well enough yet. Refactoring is just debugging your own thoughts.
@EleanorKonik Well I do a lot of public speaking too. But for me thatâs different. When I speak at a conference I know what I want to say. Not when I brainstormâŠ
@EleanorKonik And I do a LOT of refactoring with Antigravity. It does the same as Claude Code within my vault.
I am not producing articles or a novel. Itâs about analysis, structuring ideas and information. Itâs mainly complex business project management, strategy work, this kind of stuff.
@EleanorKonik Yes exactly. What I am recording is more like a live brainstorming. Like I was chatting with a friend about something that was still pretty unclear in my mind.
@EleanorKonik For me « live audio brainstorming recording» is a completely different experience than typing. Different use case. First because all my audio recordings are done outside walking in parks or nature.
@EleanorKonik I donât want to look at my phone live audio transcription in real time. This is distracting because then I will see some transcription errors. And those errors and NOT important. What counts is the overall content.