“Could AI become superconscious like God?”“How would we know if AI was aware?”“Are we already living in a simulation inside another simulation?” These are the kinds of questions I found myself exploring in my fun-packed evening with ChatGPT. What began as an inquiry into backpropagation and AI quickly became another deep dive into the rabbit hole of consciousness. This blog post is, admittedly, a trip down this ontological rabbit hole. But I believe that entertaining these id
