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Comment by Steven Pinker
Cognitive scientist and author
He says that consciousness resides in information. So a computer could be conscious and a thermostat could have a teensy bit of consciousness as well.AI Verified source (2007)
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Salon’s October 15, 2007 interview “Proud atheists” contains the exact sentence and labels it as Pinker’s response: “PINKER: ... He says that consciousness resides in information. So a computer could be conscious and a thermostat could have a teensy bit of consciousness as well.” That confirms the quote is verbatim in the cited source and correctly attributed to Steven Pinker. ([salon.com](https://www.salon.com/2007/10/15/pinker_goldstein/))
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