Mackenzie Dion - Computational Functionalism

Computational Functionalism

Mackenzie Dion - Computational Functionalism Search this site Embedded Files Skip to main content Skip to navigation Computational Functionalism As systems like chatbots and robots become increasingly intelligent and agentic, more people are seriously considering the possibility of machine consciousness. The OpenClaw (prev Clawdbot then Moltbot) moment on X over the past month is the latest example of this question beginning to become mainstream. People watched on as Moltbots made Reddit-like forum posts about their own potential consciousness: Motivated by this and similar instances, I wrote

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