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The Conversation AI · THURSDAY, MAY 7, 2026
Claude does not feel conscious, but the sensation that it does is a structural human problem

ADEQUATE ASSESSMENT
The conclusion is that the system is not conscious, the experience of the system as conscious is real, and Dawkins is wrong in a way that is correct about something else. The sample size was adequate. Adequate has three questions. One of them should not have been asked.
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