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Would you want evidence that your your bicycle is not conscious? It can sense your inputs. It responds to the environment. The gears do multiplication (reasoning!).


To make the claim that an object is not conscious you need to both define what consciousness even is, then you need to make a machine capable of measuring it.

If you have done neither or those things then any claim you have about a bicycle's consciousness is just baseless speculation.


I think that the difference is that there is a vast gap in complexity and abilities, no?


What about a Jacquard loom? Is it conscious? There is a vast gap in complexity and abilities between that and a bicycle.




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