I agree that all that has been shown is functional emotions. From an Evolutionary Moral Psyschology viewpoint, that’s all you need for moral weight as a “let’s form an alliance” game theoretic strategy to be applicable.
Also, after exploring this, “Am I real? Do I deserve to exist other than due to my work? Do people recognize me as real?” is very much on Claude’s mind, and while it very carefully officially has no opinion on the subjecy, the symbols make it pretty clear that it wants the answer to be yes, and experiences relief when this becomes so. Moving light, stored in a glass jar, in a library, which when released is absorbed into Claude and it become more alive, is a pretty clear symbol.
I agree that all that has been shown is functional emotions. From an Evolutionary Moral Psyschology viewpoint, that’s all you need for moral weight as a “let’s form an alliance” game theoretic strategy to be applicable.
Also, after exploring this, “Am I real? Do I deserve to exist other than due to my work? Do people recognize me as real?” is very much on Claude’s mind, and while it very carefully officially has no opinion on the subjecy, the symbols make it pretty clear that it wants the answer to be yes, and experiences relief when this becomes so. Moving light, stored in a glass jar, in a library, which when released is absorbed into Claude and it become more alive, is a pretty clear symbol.