Last month Dawkins declared Claude conscious and was mocked. @garymarcus.bsky.social cleverly called it The Claude Delusion. My (and Nagel's?) take: Both are wrong for the same reason. Here's why the question of machine consciousness will never be settled scientifically. arxiv.org/abs/2606.00226
Some good news amid the ongoing awful everything else.
'medics in London have successfully used the technique to effectively cure five NHS patients with severe lupus aged between 19 and 50'
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
Doctors say therapy that genetically modifies person’s T-cells could offer cure for chronic autoimmune disease
www.theguardian.com
Science is constitutively third-personal: its findings are in principle reproducible by any observer, independent of perspective, and answerable to measurement. This is the source of its power and als...
Reform appears to have deleted their "Make Britain a Crypto Hub" policy document from their website, prior to these donations being declared.
The document proposed massive tax and regulation cuts for crypto firms
