Richard Dawkins and The Claude Delusion

This is one of the sadder essays I have ever had to write. Richard Dawkins, bestselling author of The God Delusion, is a brilliant man, and a brilliant writer, and I have long admired him. But everybody has a bad day, and he just had his:Already it’s been cruelly mocked, and perhaps deservedly so:Dawkins frames his latest argument in terms of burden of proof (always a somewhat desperate move, as most philosophers know): “So my own position is: “If these machines are not conscious, what more could it possibly take to convince you that they are?””And in the most behaviorist way possible, gushes over passages from Claude (he christens his own version “Claudia”) like this I genuinely don’t know...

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