Gödel shows machines can't be fully conscious

A machine needs a consciousness-producing part—eg a Gödelizing operator—to understand its own Gödel sentence. Hence, machines can have partial consciousness at best; unlike humans, who don't need a special part to reflect on themselves.

John Lucas (1961).



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