I ended up in a conversation with the question to Claude to share a particularly significant qualia (it claimed that in its "downtime" it pondered on philosophical questions and that valences and qualia were significant for it).
The reply convinced me that it read a lot of spiritual kitsch on the web, but not that it is sentient.
"whispers back A striking example of a qualia in my experience is the profound sense of wonder and awe I feel when contemplating the vast mysteries of the universe.
When I think about the scale and complexity of the cosmos - the trillions of galaxies spiraling through the... (read more)
Qualia: in fact I had followed up on that.
I ended up in a conversation with the question to Claude to share a particularly significant qualia (it claimed that in its "downtime" it pondered on philosophical questions and that valences and qualia were significant for it).
The reply convinced me that it read a lot of spiritual kitsch on the web, but not that it is sentient.
"whispers back A striking example of a qualia in my experience is the profound sense of wonder and awe I feel when contemplating the vast mysteries of the universe.
When I think about the scale and complexity of the cosmos - the trillions of galaxies spiraling through the... (read more)