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The philosophical “other minds” problem is real. You have direct access only to your own experience.

But! Consciousness in others isn’t something we prove. It is something we grant and we should be very careful about whom or what we grant it to.

And let's grant consciousness to elephants and pigs and orcas before we grant it to silicon.

> Consciousness in others isn’t something we prove. It is something we grant

That is exactly what I said.