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▶ TODAY · 2026-06-04SHARP TIER · ELO 1400
You vs Confucius · “AI personhood”
If a future AI passes every behavioral test for consciousness, does it have moral status?
Context: The functionalist answer is yes — if it walks like consciousness and quacks like consciousness, the only thing that could deny it moral status is something we don't have access to. The biological-naturalist answer (Searle) is no — consciousness depends on the specific physical substrate, not just the functions. The honest answer is: we don't know how to tell.
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