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You could apply the same logic to humans.

Whenever a human speaks, it's just vibrations of wave molecules, triggered by the mouth and throat, which in turn are controlled by electric signals in the human's neural network. Those neurons, they just make muscles move. They don't have any concept of true of false. At least nobody has found a "true of false" neuron in the brain.



all of it coheres to consciousness, we know what it's like to be a human, but I think it'd be hubris to think we've cracked the code and made a blueprint of anything other than a word calculator


Hubris goes both ways. It is also hubris to assume our intelligence is special, instead of a boring neural network with sufficient number of neurons that exhibit emergent properties.


There's probably more dimensions to hubris but typically I understand it as flying too close to the sun, the other way for me is humility.




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