I’m pulling the “twitter is a microblog” rule even though twitter is pretty mega now, hope that’s ok.

  • Micromot@piefed.social
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    10 days ago

    This is pretty much what Descartes meant with “cogito ergo sum”. The only thing you can be sure are 100% real, are your thoughts

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      10 days ago

      Right, your own thoughts. So I can be sure I’m conscious, but you commenting “I know I’m conscious” on here doesn’t tell me anything about your consciousness. The robot can do that, and does.

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        10 days ago

        This is just the stuff you do in philosophy class. There is no right answer really. You can never be sure of something being conscious or even be sure that it exists in reality. We can just react to what we perceive.