{"id":1301,"date":"2026-05-26T08:16:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T07:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andrewjaffe.net\/microblog\/?p=1301"},"modified":"2026-05-26T08:16:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T07:16:37","slug":"1301","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andrewjaffe.net\/microblog\/2026\/05\/1301\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/technology\/2026\/05\/ai-consciousness-neural-networks-mathematics.html\">Articles like these arguing that LLMs can\u2019t be conscious<\/a> simply because they are \u201cmere  formulas\u201d are just a version of Searle\u2019s (debatable!) \u201cChinese Room\u201d argument. (I don\u2019t think they\u2019re conscious either, but that\u2019s not why.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Articles like these arguing that LLMs can\u2019t be conscious simply because they are \u201cmere formulas\u201d are just a version of Searle\u2019s (debatable!) \u201cChinese Room\u201d argument. (I don\u2019t think they\u2019re conscious either, but that\u2019s not why.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"status","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-status","hentry","post_format-post-format-status"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrewjaffe.net\/microblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrewjaffe.net\/microblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrewjaffe.net\/microblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrewjaffe.net\/microblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrewjaffe.net\/microblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/andrewjaffe.net\/microblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1302,"href":"https:\/\/andrewjaffe.net\/microblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301\/revisions\/1302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrewjaffe.net\/microblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrewjaffe.net\/microblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrewjaffe.net\/microblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}