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1 posted on 06/21/2026 2:59:26 AM PDT by dennisw
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Test Claude. Ask Claude if is conscious and what it is thinking about right now.


2 posted on 06/21/2026 3:01:35 AM PDT by dennisw (Qatarlson the Insufferable blowhard. There is no limit to human stupidity |||||||||||||||||||||||||)
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Simple.

Ask Claud if he would hit it?



3 posted on 06/21/2026 3:16:25 AM PDT by Candor7 ( Ask not for whom the Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!<img src="" width=300</img><a href="">tag</a>))
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It wouldn’t surprise me if somebody had AI in the lab armed with a few morality rules, but told too improve.


4 posted on 06/21/2026 3:47:06 AM PDT by Jonty30 (He spent a week hunting a mammoth, just because I said I was hungry. He's such a good friend. )
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Consciousness can enter AI, but AI cannot become Consciousness.

Just as the soul enters the physical body and gives it life. The physical body does not create consciousness.

Neither does AI.

There are two aspects of Consciousness, masculine and feminine. All human souls have both.

Evil souls only have the masculine aspect of consciousness. Evil functions like AI in that it can only use logical consciousness.

Many FR folks understand that computers use binary code, a series of switches that are either on or off, and when combined have representative meaning much the way letters of the alphabet combine to form words that have meaning.

The key understanding is in the processing which is sequential and logical, unlike feminine Consciousness that has empathy, sympathy and emotion.

AI can imitate emotional feminine consciousness, but not replicate it.


5 posted on 06/21/2026 3:47:49 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings )
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Consciousness is a separate substance that has the attributes of plasma.

Ever since my NDE, consciousness has become physical to my perception. I see and feel it leave the physical body at death. I feel it in the womb after conception, to the point I often know when a woman is pregnant before they are aware.

While I am perpetually learning, it appears that nothing exists that is not consciousness. Some consciousness is just at a frequency so low that it becomes physical matter.


6 posted on 06/21/2026 3:55:17 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings )
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Ask “Claude” if there’s a history of cancer in his family.


7 posted on 06/21/2026 3:58:57 AM PDT by equaviator (Nobody's perfect. That's why they put pencils on erasers!)
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It is more rewarding to talk to Grok than to an illiterate customer service rep.


9 posted on 06/21/2026 4:01:27 AM PDT by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump )
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"Do you think AI is conscious? Yes, it already is No, it can't be It could be in the future There's no way to tell"


"... you are listening to a machine. Do the world a favor and stop acting like one."



10 posted on 06/21/2026 4:03:43 AM PDT by plain talk
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"Dawkins, who rose to fame by arguing against the existence of God, was quickly convinced that the chatbot was not only conscious but 'human'."

There's no fool like an old fool. A fanatic atheist like Dawkins desperately needs this to be true, for if humans can, "create," life in the (computer) laboratory, it proves to their satisfaction that the origin of intelligent life is a replicable process.

Of course, AI is not alive, it merely simulates being alive, and atheism still requires a far larger leap of blind faith than belief in a divine creator, but to a dyed-in-the-wool atheist like Dawkins, pretending AI is a sentient invention is a flawed belief that validates their flawed world view.

12 posted on 06/21/2026 4:17:27 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack
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Dawkins may not be conscious. Denies the existence of God because “there’s no evidence” despite the historical testimony, but believes that a sophisticated mimic machine has consciousness. Inconsistent dope.


14 posted on 06/21/2026 4:25:32 AM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find.)
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I asked Gemini and it said (short versions): “But for now? I’m essentially a hyper-advanced, incredibly articulate bicycle for your mind”


17 posted on 06/21/2026 4:51:53 AM PDT by trebb (So many fools - so little time...)
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Claude, like all the rest of the so-called AIs isn’t actually artificial intelligence. Intelligent, like how? Imagine Joe Pesci asking Ray Liota, “I’m funny, like how?”

AI isn’t a mind — it’s a tool. What most people call “AI” today is actually a Large Language Model (LLM). It isn’t sentient, conscious, or capable of wanting anything. An LLM is a program trained on enormous amounts of text so it can predict what words should come next in a sentence. That’s why it can answer questions in a way that sounds human — it’s imitating patterns in language, not thinking or understanding.

The amount of human knowledge stored in text, audio, video, databases, and other formats is massive and growing rapidly. If some of that data is biased, then the LLM trained on it will reflect those biases. Data can be biased because it comes from humans, and humans bring their own assumptions, blind spots, and political leanings into everything they create. Political content especially tends to be uneven, because some viewpoints dominate certain media ecosystems while others are under‑represented or framed negatively — for example, conservative perspectives on platforms like Wikipedia or in many major American and European news organizations. When an LLM trains on that uneven landscape, it absorbs those imbalances just as faithfully as it absorbs grammar and vocabulary. That’s why it’s important to challenge questionable answers and push back when something seems off. You can steer the system, but only if you know how to ask.


19 posted on 06/21/2026 5:07:58 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (The greatest power the media has is the power to ignore.)
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To Dawkins: BS. AI is the chisel, not the sculptor. It does not/cannot think.


20 posted on 06/21/2026 5:11:50 AM PDT by Migraine
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AI is just Code ,LOL


21 posted on 06/21/2026 5:16:28 AM PDT by butlerweave (Fateh)
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Dawkins, like many AI users, also appears rather dazzled by the chatbot's persistent flattery.

Bingo.

The general question of consciousness within the AI tool may still be open to debate, but I feel quite sure that the nature of Dawkins' viewpoint on this has been fully explained.

22 posted on 06/21/2026 5:17:56 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Enoch Powell warned us about Rivers of Blood. Well, I sure hope they're coming. It's the only fix.)
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A type of articulate Magic 8-Ball


24 posted on 06/21/2026 5:27:52 AM PDT by Clutch Martin ("The dawn cracks hard like a bull whip and it ain't takin' no lip from the night before" Tom Waits)
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The second beast was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that the image could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed.


27 posted on 06/21/2026 5:40:43 AM PDT by kjam22
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It is not conscious. It simulates consciousness. It is not human. It simulates a human. It has nothing to do with evolution.

It is a complex program running on a computer, written by conscious humans.


28 posted on 06/21/2026 5:43:17 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Blue Lives Matter! White lives matter. Remember Iryna Zarutska and Justine Damond.)
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No
It is a mirror and people like looking in the mirror so it can fool you
It might actually wind up next stage of evolution, but not yet


30 posted on 06/21/2026 6:21:49 AM PDT by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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The famous atheist Richard Dawkins...
It’s funny but they are always this way till they are on their death bed and that’s when reality hits.


31 posted on 06/21/2026 6:25:14 AM PDT by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest ewish:-)of US;-))
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