Michael Tye

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Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin; philosopher of mind and consciousness.

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AI might become conscious
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Yes. [...] Why shouldn’t we say that not just individuals as we are now, imagining them like us with parts of our brains replaced with silicon chips, but individuals built from scratch with silicon chip brains can be capable of consciousness?
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