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When Dawkins met Claude – Could this AI be conscious?


“If a machine can make jokes and write poetry — what is left for consciousness to explain?” ai companionsAlan TuringconsciousnessevolutionLLMsThomas Nagel Richard Dawkins Apr 30 2026 - 12:03am 7 mins The Turing Test is shorthand for a 1950 thought experiment that the great mathematician, logician, computer-pioneer, and cryptographer Alan Turing (1912-1954) called the “Imitation Game”. He proposed it as an operational way in which the future might face up to the question: “Can machines think?” The future has now arrived.

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