Google argues that AI will never be conscious.
It is impossible.
For years, the entire tech industry has operated on a foundational belief called computational functionalism.
the belief that if you build an AI network complex enough, subjective consciousness will automatically emerge from the software.
They published a paper called "The Abstraction Fallacy" proved that premise is logically impossible.
Here is the core breakthrough:
Expectant tech optimists treat calculations like they are an intrinsic physical process built into silicon. They aren't.
Inside a computer chip, there are only continuous, raw physical properties—voltage drops, thermal fluctuations, and electron flows.
The 1s and 0s? The algorithms? The syntax?
None of those are native to the hardware. They are externally assigned rules mapped onto the physics by a human observer.
Computation is a description, not a property.
As the paper bluntly puts it: "Expecting an algorithmic description to instantiate the quality it maps is like expecting the mathematical formula of gravity to physically exert weight."
This exposes the fatal flaw in modern AI narratives.
An AI can simulate speech, mimic empathy, and pass every intelligence benchmark you throw at it. But simulation is not instantiation.
It is manipulating symbols on a screen, detached from any real internal experience.
The map is not the territory. No matter how high-resolution the map becomes.
This changes everything about how we look at the future of technology:
1. It kills the "AI welfare" panic. You cannot commit a moral crime against a mathematical mapping. There is no hidden suffering inside the weights.
2. It strips away the mystical AGI hype and returns AI to its rightful place: the greatest productivity tool ever engineered.
3. It preserves what makes humans irreplaceable.
We’ve spent the last few years terrified that AI is becoming more like us.
This research proves it is just a sophisticated calculator running on a borrowed language.
The machines can simulate life all they want.
They will never feel it.
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Roger Penrose's 1965 diagram from his seminal paper, "Gravitational Collapse and Space-Time Singularities". It was a key part of the work that earned him the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics.
It represents the evolution of a star's gravitational collapse into a black hole and the subsequent formation of a singularity.
Before this paper, many physicists believed singularities might only form in perfectly symmetrical stars. Penrose used "global techniques" to prove that once a trapped surface forms, a singularity is inevitable, regardless of the star's shape or symmetry.
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Pasajeros de un vuelo de Kenya Airways captaron imágenes espectaculares del Monte Kilimanjaro desde el aire. Con casi 5.900 metros de altura, es la montaña más alta del continente africano y uno de los pocos volcanes ecuatoriales con nieve permanente. Este tipo de vistas solo es posible cuando la ruta, el clima y el tráfico aéreo lo permiten.
Un astrónomo aficionado capturó una imagen compuesta de la Luna de 708 gigabytes
Esta impresionante imagen, creada a partir de múltiples tomas, muestra la Luna con detalles sin precedentes. Tal cantidad de datos permite observar las características más pequeñas de la superficie
"El cine es la industria del espectáculo y su gran error es haberlo considerado como arma cultural" (Luis García Berlanga)
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@_MrCapello El tema es que no es extremo como ha resaltado Scaloni, sus condiciones son para jugar por dentro; Paredes, pases filtrados, disparo. 24 fichas y ni un solo extremo derecho ni un 9 puro. Curiosidsdees habituales de nuestra planificación.
@NataliaVartan Tn sabemos que estas constantes no tienen por qué ser exactamente así, si otras variasen de forma que los equilibrios se establecieran de nuevo con valores distintos, por lo que quizás el ajuste no sea tan fino como pensamos y otro haría posibles un universo similar al nuestro.
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