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Why AI Consciousness Claims Fail
- Kastrup's computer-science background shaped his concretely informed skepticism about artificial consciousness.
- He argues most AI researchers lack deep understanding of low-level hardware and abstraction layers.
Logic's Limits At Nature's Edge
- Aristotelian logic underpins our thinking but may not map fully onto nature, especially at quantum scales.
- The law of excluded middle (true/false) likely fails, prompting alternative logics like intuitionism.
Truth Needs Construction
- Intuitionistic logic requires constructive demonstration: something counts as true only if you can show it.
- Many theoretical entities in physics are pragmatic fictions, useful for prediction but not proven to 'exist'.