AI Consciousness Slips into Mysticism // AIDRAN

The pattern at work in the AI consciousness conversation is not confusion — it is substitution. When a question cannot be answered with available tools, communities do not suspend judgment; they find a framework where judgment is possible. For AI consciousness, that framework is increasingly spiritual rather than scientific.

AI Consciousness Debate Drifts from Philosophy into Mysticism

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