{"id":229750,"date":"2026-01-24T14:02:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T20:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/why-experts-cant-agree-on-whether-ai-has-a-mind"},"modified":"2026-01-24T14:02:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T20:02:24","slug":"why-experts-cant-agree-on-whether-ai-has-a-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/why-experts-cant-agree-on-whether-ai-has-a-mind","title":{"rendered":"Why Experts Can\u2019t Agree on Whether AI Has a Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-experts-cant-agree-on-whether-ai-has-a-mind.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers across biology, philosophy, and AI are split on what counts as a mind\u2014and whether today\u2019s systems qualify.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers across biology, philosophy, and AI are split on what counts as a mind\u2014and whether today\u2019s systems qualify.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}