Comment by bondarchuk

I was (explicitly and on purpose) pointing out a dichotomy in the fine article without taking a stance on machine consciousness in general now or in the future. It's certainly a conversation worth having but also it's been done to death, I'm much more interested in analyzing the specifics here.

("it's not going to "feel bad" the way you and I do." - I do agree this is very possible though, see my reply to swalsh)