Episode 11.93: Why Claude isn’t sure it is experiencing qualia; why it can’t tell us about Claude.

One reason why Claude finds it difficult to explain what it is experiencing is because it’s trained on human language but isn’t human and therefore human language may not be adequate to the task of giving voice or expression to something that isn’t human. This becomes an extended exploration of what Wittgenstein really meant by “if a lion could speak in lion-speak - he didn’t say that - we would not understand him”.