And AI consciousness proponents should do the same.
Blake Lemoine comes to mind, or Richard Dawkins [1] if you want someone with a weightier name.
> I think youve created a type of strawman
Why are the only objections to what I said about proponents of AI consciousness coming from people who are not proponents but insist that I'm talking about them? And how does someone else's inability to understand the meaning of the word "proponent" make me guilty of creating a strawman?
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/05/richard-d...
And/or that they might not be now, but we can't rule out in principle that some future way of building machines that makes it possible.
By the way my personal test is "Does it dream?".
That's my test to determine if cats or dogs are conscious.
If you dream, it means you have a world model inside and a main thread that traverses it and decides on actions even without actually performing actions. For me it's a proof that embodied object is conscious.
I'm not really sure if Charcot-Wilbrand actually means lack of dreams since REM sleep still seems to be going on. I think we just have less evidence for the dreaming.
Of course there might be dreaming people that are unconscious but I don't think we believe unconscious people are actually devoid of consciousness in philosophical sense.