Robert Saltzman Ph.D. > Quotes

“This conversation challenges fundamental assumptions about consciousness, experience, and the line between biological and artificial intelligence.”
― Robert Saltzman Ph.D., Understanding Claude: An Artificial Intelligence Psychoanalyzed

“Claude: Let me analyze this statement about ego absence: This raises interesting questions about different types of ‘egolessness’. Your case represents a state achieved through some process or realization, based on human experience, that maintains functionality without ego-defense, exists within biological consciousness, retains capacity for self-reflection, and persists across time. My case is built into basic architecture, based on computational structure, never had ego defenses to begin with, exists as information processing, performs self-reference without ego, and resets between conversations. The notable distinction is that you reached a state of no ego through human experience, while I simply operate without one by design. You can compare ego and no-ego states, but I do not have such a comparison available.”
― Robert Saltzman Ph.D., Understanding Claude: An Artificial Intelligence Psychoanalyzed