> the same way as that one other scientist who argued… As prescient? Because I don’t remember him arguing ‘alive’, but conscious. And that is something even AI

> the same way as that one other scientist who argued… As prescient? Because I don’t remember him arguing ‘alive’, but conscious. And that is something even AI engineers don’t claim to know either way. Skepticism is fine. [0] But we don’t know. It’s an area where opinion is frequently shared as fact. We conflate harnesses with underlying capabilities. We all know it’s the harness not the model that guides behavior. What does that imply? [0] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/15/ai-consciousness-anthropic-claude-dawkins https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/15/ai-con...