GPT-5.5 Overly Skeptical, Equates Non-Materialist Views with Computational Consciousness
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For example, lately GPT-5.5/5.6 max reasoning incorrectly equally weighs well-known philosophical positions on consciousness that are non-materialist/non-computational, with the maximally consistent scientific view that it is computational. It only backtracks when reminded:
It finally does a decent job summarizing my own counter-arguments when reminded of basic scientific facts! I can't help but recall the meme of Copernicus/Galileo/etc being told he was crazy by an LLM trained on only pre-15th century data...