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Ep. 235 - Steven Zapata

The Collective Podcast

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Is There Something It's Like to Be Me?

I see no reason to believe that there's anything it is like to be stable diffusion. So it's not conscious. It is not sentient. And I just don't think that those arguments are actually relevant here. For me, for example, I believe ants are conscious, right? But they're compared to other animals and they're running more simplified processes. In reality, they're already extremely complicated,. but for me, my guts tell me there's something it's like to be an ant, right? Can I prove it? No, but it seems right. There's certainly something it'slike to be my dog that sits right with me. Unless somebody's going to make a sol

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