"They just believe instead that the complex assortment of skills we call 'consciousness' has randomly emerged from the coordinated activity of
many different simple mechanisms. The implication is that our facility
with what we consider the higher registers of thought are no different
in kind from what we’re tempted to perceive as the lower registers.
Logical reasoning, on this account, is seen as a lucky adaptation; so is
the ability to throw and catch a ball."
--"The Great A.I. Awakening," by Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New York Times
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