8legs: Blake lemoine

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Is Google hiding its SCARIEST creation?

Pollan investigates whether consciousness can arise from machines and what that means for AI.
The author interviews Blake Lemoine, who claims AI may be sentient in parts.
Pollan questions whether the self is an illusion and what true consciousness entails.
The beeper experiment aims to capture Pollan’s stream of thought for analysis.
The book juxtaposes scientific views with philosophical questions on consciousness.
Pollan’s journey is described as compelling but unsettled by unanswered questions.
The review notes Pollan’s personal data-gathering method as a narrative device.
The book surveys panpsychism, the idea that everything is conscious to some degree.
LaMDA’s claimed sentience is presented as a debated counterpoint to hardware/software models.
The Mail Bookshop edition of A World Appears is highlighted as the book’s availability.

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