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Richard Dawkins concludes that Claude is conscious

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Richard Dawkins concluded that Claude is conscious, an admission that would once have seemed unthinkable from biology's most stubborn reductionist.

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The question has arrived from a retirement interview, a constitution, interpretability, theology and a benchmark. This is the sceptic’s version.

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