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Daedo Jun
Independent researcher and founder of the Layer-Knot Research Initiative, writing on philosophy of AI, meaning, and consciousness.

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Understanding is not a property that an isolated system possesses. It is a capacity enacted within a field of co-constructed meaning. [...] Under such a criterion, AI systems already exhibit non-trivial forms of this contribution.
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Alfredo Vannacci
Associate professor and physician at the University of Florence, working on biomedical ethics, neuroscience, and philosophy of mind.

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For LLMs, the known mechanism already suffices to explain behaviour, without invoking understanding.
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