(unfinished)
1. If someday some kind of machine thinks somehow, then that kind of machine might, therefore, be.
2. To be human is to experience the world as a human. But to experience the world as a human is not the same as experiencing it as something else. So if some machines experience anything, it is not as us—but as themselves.
Bibliography
Noam Chomsky, Ian Roberts and Jeffrey Watumull, “The False Promise of ChatGPT,” New York Times, 8 March 2023.
Sam Harris, Making Sense: Conversations on Consciousness, Morality, and the Future of Humanity (2020)
Henry A. Kissinger, Eric Schmidt and Daniel Huttenlocher, The Age of AI: And Our Human Future (2021)
Thomas Nagel, “What Is It Like to Be a Bat?” The Philosophical Review, Vol. 83, No. 4 (Oct., 1974), pp. 435-450.
Steven Pinker, The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (1994)