Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart) / quote 11 of 171
Consciousness is a useful hallucination
Neither brains nor computers carry out computations. Consciousness is a hallucination, albeit a very useful one. And information is an epistemic tool that is a cultural invention rather than a natural entity. Some philosophers, like David Chalmers, argue that the brain doesn’t have to be computational or informational to be simulated. Artificial intelligence does not have to be conscious to achieve either evil or benign demigod-level