Seems like researchers are getting uncomfortably good at mimicking consciousness- so much so that it’s beginning to make me question the deepest parts of my own brain. Perhaps the difference between AI and myself is that I am only prompted by outward stimuli? It seems as though that is what makes the intelligence “artificial”
Christ even as I type this, my thought processes mimic, for example, deepseek’s exposed deep think capabilities. Fuck idk if I’ll be able to unsee it. Seems like the only thing we have on it right now is emotion and even that seems to be in danger
My final takeaway from all of this is that we are in hell
We are all just biological machines that react to and accumelate data about our material conditions but it isn’t worth dwelling on this. The question of free-will has been hashed out for millenia and the answer is that it doesn’t really matter.