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To assert that any contemporary AI can think or is conscious represents a particularly emaciated meaning of those words, and suggests that any author of such assertions has a profound misunderstanding of the exquisite nature of what it means to be human.

You mean a "chat bot"? Absolutely not. I have no need for any of that garbage. No offense but people using that crap are complicit in the destruction of humanity due to water and climate change. And perhaps the various "Terminator" scenarios. I'll have nothing to do with any of it. Principles.

I appreciate that you have been on a long journey to get to your conclusion that the mind is computable, but are there books you would recommend for those just starting to explore these ideas?

If your reason devolves into the brain being a series of states and transitions then a rock is also a mind.