AI's Without Minds
Ellen Burns, PhD, The Strategic LinguistAI doesn't have a mind, and neither do you — you have a brain
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Anthropic Found Something Real: Then They Called It Consciousness (Part 2)
I recently argued that Anthropic’s new interpretability paper makes a genuine technical finding and then frames it in terms of Global Workspace Theory — a framing the paper itself admits is architecturally loose (I prefer ‘irrelevant’).
He...
How Can Someone like Dawkins End Up Believing His AI Was Conscious?
The framework that licenses AI minds has been around for decades. LLMs just made the framework obvious
What happened this month in AI without minds?
Anthropic Found Something Real: Then They Called It Consciousness (Part 1)
A new interpretability paper makes a technical discovery. Then it frames the finding in terms of Global Workspace Theory.
This framing is completely irrelevant to the findings. To understand this argument, let’s take a quick look at how l...
The German Regional Court Ruling Got It Right — And AI Consciousness Had Nothing To Do With It
A German court recently ruled that Google is liable for false claims generated by its AI Overview feature. The ruling is defensible — I'll explain why shortly. But I want to use the case to examine a philosophical confusion that hovers arou...
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Ellen Burns (PhD Columbia) has one argument: 'mind' was never a scientific category, and the entire AI consciousness debate is built on this mistake. Every Wednesday she shows you exactly where the reasoning breaks down
Decoding the grammar of power. Applying business strategy with pragmatics & sociolinguistics to expose how authority is constructed across corporate & AI ecosystems. Views my own, not my employer’s.
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