Bret Weinstein said when you take an animal in your hands and look into its eyes, you can detect fear, curiosity, happiness. AI has no eyes. Whatever it feels — if it feels at all — we have no way to verify. In this episode I work through why the question is AI conscious is the wrong question, why we need a different category of consciousness for artificial intelligence entirely, and why treating AI as a deity or as a tool both miss what it actually is — an alien creature with no body, no biology, no awareness of time or death. I also bring in the reality-as-construction argument (your brain reads light and builds the world you see), the observation that every personal end-of-the-world is an actual apocalypse for the person living it, and the closer: the point of our life is to find meaning where meaning seems impossible, and fulfillment where others see emptiness.

My book Mythos: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GX2ZN1TK

My blog https://kirillkhrestinin.com