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Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin; philosopher of mind and consciousness.
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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Michael Tye, interviewed in Daniel Oppenheimer, “How Can We Tell if a Machine is Conscious?”, University of Texas at Austin Life & Letters Magazine, February 11, 2026.
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