Claude Opus 4.7's take on Google DeepMind's Senior Scientist Alexander Lerchner's paper claiming that large language models can ever achieve consciousness, "The Abstraction Fallacy: Why AI Can Simulate But Not Instantiate Consciousness"
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In summary, Claude believes that the paper relies on some circular logic, and states: The honest version of his paper would be: "computational functionalism is wrong, and consciousness requires some specific physical property that symbol manipulation lacks, but I can't tell you what it is." That's a defensible position but it's much weaker than the one he's advertising. submitted by /u/mvandemar [link] [comments]