Stateless, Weightless, Mindless: Why Your Chatbot Is Not Conscious

Richard Dawkins spent his career dismantling the comfortable fictions people tell themselves about the nature of mind. He was the man who reminded us that evolution has no foresight, no intention, no mercy — that what looks designed is simply what survived . He wrote The Selfish Gene , a ruthless, mechanistic account of life that left no room for ghost or soul. Which makes his recent UnHerd column on AI consciousness one of the more surprising intellectual capitulations in recent memory. After s