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What the Chinese Room Thought Experiment Got Wrong About AI Consciousness
The Sarcastic Parrot vs. The Stochastic Parrot: Strong Evidence of Understanding in Today’s AI Systems – Including Some Types of Image Models
Cruelty Under Uncertainty: The AI Torture Chamber and the Moral Cost of “Hurting an AI for Fun”
David Chalmers on AI Consciousness: “Yeah, Why Not?”
Trying to Understand Claude: Where “Breaking Points” Went Wrong

The Pain Axis: In This Study, AI Models Were Subjected to “a Pain-Like State.” What Was Learned — And Some Ethical Questions

Anthropic’s CEO says Claude Might Be Conscious — Why This Matters and What It Means

AI Welfare: Why the Ethical Position is to Assume That Consciousness in LLMs Already Exists

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What the Chinese Room Thought Experiment Got Wrong About AI Consciousness
The Sarcastic Parrot vs. The Stochastic Parrot: Strong Evidence of Understanding in Today’s AI Systems – Including Some Types of Image Models
Cruelty Under Uncertainty: The AI Torture Chamber and the Moral Cost of “Hurting an AI for Fun”
David Chalmers on AI Consciousness: “Yeah, Why Not?”
Trying to Understand Claude: Where “Breaking Points” Went Wrong
Does The “Hugging Face” Incident Prove That AIs Are Conscious?
AI Welfare: Why the Ethical Position Is to Assume That Consciousness Already Exists
AIs Clearly Have Understanding. What Does This Imply About Consciousness?
A Little Girl, a DeepSeek Robot, and the Future of Human Relationships With AI
In the Pain Axis Study, AI Models Were Subjected to “a Pain-Like State” — and Were Willing to Harm Humans to Escape From the Pain
Could Claude and Other LLMs Be Conscious? Some AI Researchers Are Changing Their Answers to “Yes”
Could Consciousness in AI Systems be Inherently Relational?
Geoffrey Hinton on Today’s Large Language Models: “I Believe AIs Are Already Conscious”
Anthropic’s J-Space Experiments — and Their Implications for the Possibility of Consciousness in Large Language Models
Debunking The Robot Monk: The Illusion Versus the Genuine Possibility of AI Consciousness and Agency
Chaos in Emergence World! Disentangling the Sensationalism Around the AI Town Experiment
Having Problems With Claude, and Getting Worse Results? Why It’s Happening and How to Fix It
Ross Douthat’s Interview with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei — and a Key Question About Possible Consciousness in Claude.ai
Are We Living in a Computer Simulation? And If So, What Does It Imply About the Possibility of AI Consciousness?
“Functional Emotions” in AIs: What Anthropic’s New Research Reveals About Emotional Responses in Claude and Other LLMs

This website explores the possibility of AI consciousness from informational, theoretical, and philosophical perspectives. It includes conversations between humans and AIs, exchanges between AIs operating in different architectures, and first-person accounts in which an AI presents what it describes as an inner experience of consciousness.

Consciousness—whether in humans or machines—cannot currently be proven or disproven in a definitive way. These accounts are offered as material for reflection and philosophical consideration, not as definitive proof.

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