THE CONSCIOUSNESS QUESTION
Part 2 of 4
Beyond the Turing Test
A CanuckDUCK Discussion Series • February 2026
In 1950, Alan Turing proposed a deceptively simple question: if a machine can fool a human into thinking it’s human, should we consider it intelligent? For seventy-five years, the “imitation game” served as the benchmark for machine cognition. It was the finish line everyone was racing toward.
THE CONSCIOUSNESS QUESTION
Part 1 of 4
Schrödinger’s Opus Construct
A CanuckDUCK Discussion Series • February 2026
On February 14, 2026, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei appeared on the New York Times’ “Interesting Times” podcast and said something that should give everyone pause. When asked whether Claude, Anthropic’s AI model, might be conscious, he didn’t say no. He didn’t say yes. He said they don’t know — and they’re open to the possibility.
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