📝 Proving (literally) that ChatGPT isn't conscious (Erik Hoel). The argument has two sides any theory of consciousness needs to avoid (the "Kleiner-Hoel dilemma"):

1. It has to be falsifiable: If the theory depends on some feature, but I can construct a system with the same input/output behavior, but lacks that property, then your theory is falsified.

2. It cannot be trivial: If the theory is that the input/output behavior itself is what consciousness is, then your theory has learned nothing.

2026-02-03 # link, ai, llm, thinking