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If materialism is true, the United States is probably conscious (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-18 | tags: materialism, consciousness, united states

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Tech treating AI like humans is mistaken and misguided, Microsoft boss tells BBC (feeds.bbci.co.uk)

2026-09-17 | by Watch Our Pick Of Standout Clips Across The Bbc | tags: microsoft, anthropic, claude

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Microsoft AI Chief Says the Way Anthropic Trains Claude Could Upend Society (gizmodo.com)

2026-09-16 | tags: microsoft ai, mustafa suleyman, anthropic

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Microsoft says AI rival Anthropic could have 'disastrous impact' on humanity (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-16 | by Watch Our Pick Of Standout Clips Across The Bbc | tags: mustafa suleyman, anthropic, claude

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A warning about 'model welfare' (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-16 | tags: model welfare, ai consciousness, ai rights

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Microsoft says AI rival Anthropic could have 'disastrous impact' on humanity (feeds.bbci.co.uk)

2026-09-16 | by Watch Our Pick Of Standout Clips Across The Bbc | tags: mustafa suleyman, anthropic, claude

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Google researchers have been playing with AI ‘consciousness.’ What they found was unexpected (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-09-15 | tags: google, llm, ai consciousness

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People who can't picture anything are rewriting the science of imagination (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-14 | tags: aphantasia, visual cortex, consciousness and cognition

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Who Cares if AI Is Conscious—It’s Basically Alive (wired.com)

2026-09-04 | by Steven Levy | get Being You Anil Seth book → | tags: chatgpt, artificial consciousness, galápagos

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Researchers Studying AI Consciousness Are Getting Strange Emails — From AI Agents (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-09-01 | by Sherin Shibu | get Being You Anil Seth book → | tags: anthropic, claude opus 5, ai agents

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Podcaster’s Viral Post About the Hugging Face Hack Sparks Debate Over AI Conciousness (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-31 | tags: hugging face, dwarkesh patel, ai consciousness

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Humanity has the debate about AI consciousness backwards (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-27 | get Being You Anil Seth book → | tags: consciousness, humanity, debate

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Can AI ever be conscious? The question stems from a misconception (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-24 | by Birhane | get Intertwined Creatures Chemero book → | tags: artificial intelligence, consciousness, anthony chemero

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Wild New Paper Claims Human Brain Doesn’t Produce Consciousness (futurism.com)

2026-08-21 | by Joe Wilkins | tags: christof koch, allen institute, consciousness

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Debates over AI consciousness are a trap (technologyreview.com)

2026-08-20 | by Rumman Chowdhury | tags: ai consciousness, legal personhood, corporate personhood

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The Origin of Consciousness (2008) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-17 | tags: princeton university, julian jaynes, bicameral mind

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Daily briefing: Why all living cells emit a faint glow (feeds.nature.com)

2026-07-28 | by Graham | tags: biophotons, sleep, enzyme

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Consciousness research is having an AI moment. Will the hype help the field? (feeds.nature.com)

2026-07-28 | by Lenharo | tags: artificial intelligence, consciousness, anil seth

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If digital computers are conscious, they are conscious at the hardware level (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-27 | tags: digital computers, consciousness, physicalist

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A Silent Workspace In Claude Mirrors Key Features of Human Consciousness (slashdot.org)

2026-07-08 | get Noise-Canceling Headphones → | tags: ansi, ansi draft, committee

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Anthropic Releases Paper About Claude’s Mental ‘Workspace.’ Don’t Read It Uncritically (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-07 | get AI Research Notebook → | tags: anthropic, anthropic paper, bit hastily

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Anthropic's new "J-lens" reveals a silent workspace inside Claude that mirrors a leading theory of consciousness (venturebeat.com)

2026-07-06 | tags: claude, internal, language

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How working memory could give rise to consciousness (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-04 | by Henry Taylor | get Neuroscience Working Memory Book → | tags: capacity, conscious, consciousness

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Words Are a Byproduct of Consciousness. For LLMs, It's Backwards (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-30 | by Devarsh Ranpara | get AI Consciousness Simulation Kit → | tags: consciousness, large language models, human speech

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There May Be Bizarre Forms of Consciousness Drifting Through the Universe, Mind-Bending Paper Claims (futurism.com)

2026-06-28 | by Victor Tangermann | get Quantum Entanglement Science Kit → | tags: project hail mary, rocky alien, university of california

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Age of Empires II’s goats used as AI building blocks to build a neural network — goaty experiment mocks the idea of chatbot consciousness, Microsoft AI researcher’s project makes an absurdist point about AI consciousness (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-21 | by Mark Tyson | get AI Neural Network Kit → | tags: age of empires, microsoft ai, neural network

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Microsoft AI head calls out Anthropic for acting like Claude is conscious (theverge.com)

2026-06-09 | by Emma Roth | get AI Consciousness Awareness Book → | tags: anthropic, claude, consciousness

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Scientists are seriously asking if bees and ChatGPT are conscious (sciencedaily.com)

2026-06-06 | get AI Consciousness Research Book → | tags: animals, behavior, conscious

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Artificial intelligence is not conscious (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-03 | by Ted Chiang | get AI Consciousness Explanation Book → | tags: anthropic, claude, large language model

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Anthropic and DeepMind Now Actively Investigating AI Consciousness (futurism.com)

2026-06-03 | by Frank Landymore | get AI Consciousness Research Kit → | tags: anthropic, deepmind, ai consciousness