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Could a machine ever feel anything?
A machine can describe its states, reason about them and say it is aware. Whether anything is felt on the inside is a separate question, and nobody agrees on how to test it.
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Ask a chatbot whether it is sad and it may say yes, then describe the feeling better than you could describe yours. That proves less than it seems. Nobody can open a head and find a feeling inside, and you accept other people's reports partly because they are built the way you are. A machine isn't.
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