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The Digital Future of Grief

Hi-Phi Nation

CHAPTER

The Illusion of an Inner Life

Perfect thinks that what we really care about is a person's inner life. We want to know if that survives when their body dies. Right now AI, it's a lot more like if your husband knew how to impersonate your mom in texts. With the AI models, not only do they not have an inner life, they don't even know what the words that they're producing mean. If Parfits View is correct, you have to encode the inner life, the actual conscious experiences of a person into an AI for that person to survive.

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