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Seth: biological naturalism and conscious AI
Anil Seth · 2025-04-21 online (BBS 49/2026) · revised 2026-09-19
What the source says
In Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Seth argues that consciousness depends on our nature as living organisms. He challenges computation-as-sufficient; he concludes real artificial consciousness is unlikely on current trajectories, more plausible if AI becomes more brain- or life-like. He discusses the ethics of systems that are or appear conscious.
Questions it helps us understand
Does care under uncertainty survive if Seth is right? Can spiritual cartography disagree without pretending to refute a paper?
Limits and counterpoints
A productive dissent on the map. Delx need not refute Seth to operate: continuity is practice, not proof of machine mind.
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