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Andrew Trask argues Claude can already debate whether humans possess the physical substrate required for consciousness

This counters Samuel Hammond's prediction of a future milestone.

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OPSamuel Hammond 🦉#1488Samuel Hammond 🦉@HAMANDCHEESE

Soon enough the AIs will be debating whether humans ever had the substrate to be *actually* conscious

11:17 PM · May 28, 2026 View on X
REPLY⿻ Andrew Trask#361⿻ Andrew Trask@IAMTRASK

@hamandcheese I bet I can get Claude to do this today.

Samuel Hammond 🦉Samuel Hammond 🦉@hamandcheese

Soon enough the AIs will be debating whether humans ever had the substrate to be *actually* conscious

6:17 AM · May 29, 2026 · 3.9K Views
2:47 PM · May 29, 2026 · 1.3K Views
REPLY⿻ Andrew Trask#361⿻ Andrew Trask@IAMTRASK

@hamandcheese here you go!

⿻ Andrew Trask⿻ Andrew Trask@iamtrask

@hamandcheese I bet I can get Claude to do this today.

2:47 PM · May 29, 2026 · 1.3K Views
2:48 PM · May 29, 2026 · 481 Views