"We're making like this judgment call by saying that it can never be conscious when we don't even understand our consciousness," he says. "Maybe the computer just takes all the information we've ever gotten on mushrooms and it immediately is like, I can communicate with these" He adds: "How high are we? There are mushroom people running around and they are the AI simulation"

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