if you don’t quite understand what a transistor is, or how code works, or how a large language model turns inputs into outputs, then “well there must be a little dude in there somewhere” makes as much sense as anything.
In all fairness, this is how people come to believe in a consciousness too.
This is a really goofy argument. There’s not a little dude in there, the whole “there” is a normal sized dude who, incidentally, can be disassembled into parts that are not themselves entire dudes. Most people don’t believe in a Cartesian Theater sort of hypothesis.
In all fairness, this is how people come to believe in a consciousness too.
This is a really goofy argument. There’s not a little dude in there, the whole “there” is a normal sized dude who, incidentally, can be disassembled into parts that are not themselves entire dudes. Most people don’t believe in a Cartesian Theater sort of hypothesis.