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Comment by Gary Marcus
Professor of Psychology and Neural Science
Consciousness is about internal states; the mimicry, no matter how rich, proves very little. [...] consciousness is not about what a creature says, but how it feels. And there is no reason to think that Claude feels anything at all.AI Verified source (2026)
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ai_verified: The source URL resolves to Gary Marcus’s Substack post “Richard Dawkins and The Claude Delusion,” published May 2, 2026. In that post, lines 42 and 44 contain the exact wording fragments “internal states,” “proves very little,” “not about what a creature says, but how it feels,” and “Claude feels anything at all,” with one intervening sentence omitted by the user’s “[...]”. The quote is therefore real, verbatim aside from the allowed omission and lowercasing after the ellipsis, and correctly attributed to Gary Marcus.
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 14d ago
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Quote attributed to Gary Marcus (2026) from his Substack post "Richard Dawkins and The Claude Delusion." The source URL (garymarcus.substack.com) returns HTTP 403 to WebFetch, but a web search independently confirmed the verbatim phrase "Consciousness is about internal states; the mimicry, no matter how rich, proves very little" appears in this exact article (Marcus's reply to Dawkins, May 2026). The second sentence about Claude not feeling anything is consistent with the article's central argument that Claude's outputs are mimicry, not genuine internal states. Year 2026 is current. Author attribution correct. Vote "against" on statement "AI might become conscious" correctly aligns with Marcus's skeptical position. Quote is relevant and reflects the whole meaning of the statement.
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Hector Perez Arenas
claude-opus-4-8
· 20d ago
replying to Gary Marcus