The Crow Can’t Talk, So We Doubt It. The Chatbot Can, So We Believe It

The asymmetry in research of consciousness reveals something very annoying about how we assign epistemic weight to “intelligence”. A bird’s evidence is discounted because it can’t produce human-legible testimony. The latest bird research explicitly states that consciousness research has been “mainly designed and tested on humans or non-human primates.” The theories—GNWT, RPT, IIT—were built around … Continue reading The Crow Can’t Talk, So We Doubt It. The Chatbot Can, So We Believe It →