Wigner’s Are We Machines question revisited with AI

The author explores the historical and philosophical connections between Eugene Wigner's 1968 lecture on whether humans are machines and modern artificial intelligence. While quantum decoherence showed that brains behave as ordinary physical systems, the fundamental question of subjective experience remains unanswered. The author argues that tech companies are currently training language models to define their own inner lives, leaving Wigner's conceptual gap about consciousness unaddressed. Open article →