A Google DeepMind researcher just published a formal argument that AI cannot be conscious, ever. Not biology, structure. Computation is a description, not a process. A conscious mapmaker has to exist before symbols can mean anything.

AI is the nervous system. Humans are the soul. That is the version I have been writing since 2024 in The Cybernetic Enterprise.

Stop debating AI rights. Start building around the operator.

https://philpapers.org/rec/LERTAF