Subjective experience does not work like 'photograph of' and does not involve an inner theater filled with qualia; rather, saying 'I have the subjective experience of pink elephants' is an indirect way of reporting that one's perceptual system has malfunctioned, by describing what would have to exist in the real world for the perception to be accurate—the pink, elephant, and floating are all normal, just hypothetical and not actually there.

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Speaker

Geoffrey Hinton

Evidence Quote

my perceptual systems gone wrong. It's trying to tell me lies and I know it's trying to tell me lies. Um that's why I use the word subjective.

Source

Will AI outsmart human intelligence? - with 'Godfather of AI' Geoffrey HintonThe Royal Institution
Created: 6/18/2026, 2:17:54 PM

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