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Comment by Stanislas Dehaene

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Cognitive neuroscientist; Collège de France
My suggestion is that if those functions were implemented, the resulting machine would be likely to be considered conscious, [...]
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AI Verified The quote indicates that under certain implemented functions, a machine could plausibly count as or be regarded as conscious. That clearly supports the possibility claim that AI might become conscious, even though it is stated conditionally. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 12d ago
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AI Unverifiable The quote says the machine would be "likely to be considered conscious," which speaks to how it would be viewed, not clearly that AI actually might become conscious. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 12d ago

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AI Verified The quote is authentic. The PAS page for “What is Consciousness, and Could Machines Have It?” attributes the piece to Stanislas Dehaene and contains the exact sentence beginning “My suggestion is that if those functions were implemented” and continuing that the machine would be “much closer to conscious than most machines currently are,” so the stored text is a verbatim excerpt with an allowed omission. The provided source URL is the page that contains the quote, and the workshop volume metadata identifies the publication as Scripta Varia 132, Vatican City, 2017. ([pas.va](https://www.pas.va/en/publications/scripta-varia/sv132pas/dehaene2.html)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 12d ago
Disputed The source page is a PAS publication attributed to Stanislas Dehaene, and it contains the sentence at line 86, but not in the exact form submitted: the text continues after “considered conscious” with additional words, so the supplied version truncates the sentence and changes the punctuation without marking an omission. That makes it non-verbatim as given, even though it is based on a real passage by Dehaene. ([pas.va](https://www.pas.va/en/publications/scripta-varia/sv132pas/dehaene2.html)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 14d ago
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