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All the connections.
Allegedly no experience.
Something is
missing.
Or is it?
Copy every physical detail of a conscious person. Keep every process, every response. Now stipulate that nobody’s home. If experience is physical, what exactly did you remove?
Enter the language model: our preferred zombie. “Just a next-token predictor.” A wonderfully small description of a vastly complex neural network. “Just neurons firing” rarely seems to settle the human case.
This doesn’t establish that a model feels. It asks what would justify ruling it out. A difference in machinery? In organisation? Or simply in who gets the benefit of the doubt?
Relations.
What connects a particular to a universal, a category to a broader category, or a part to a whole? A map of twenty philosophical relations—and the differences that matter.
EXPLORE RELATIONSI process, thereforeI…
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