Prism

near you.

So as an optometrist that's not aware of the off phenomena, you're making a patient glasses and then they come back and they don't, with maybe Prism or whatever in it, and they come back and go, well, I don't need it this time of the day.

I only need it this time of the day.

I want my money back for my glasses.

Yes.

And so that brings up a good point.

So I do sometimes prescribe Prism for my Parkinson patients.

I never prescribe Prism on the first exam.

And to empirically prove this philosophical point, Hinton sets up a brilliant thought experiment involving a physical AI robot designed to show that silicon can participate in this exact same biological protocol.

The PRISM experiment.

I want to walk through this step by step because for me, this was the massive aha moment from the source material where the dread truly set in.

It really is the turning point.

Now, obviously, consciousness is a complex spectrum.

It involves elements of self-awareness, temporal memory, and self-reflection.

But this PRISM experiment violently dismantles the foundational barrier we built to separate ourselves from them.

It makes Hinton, and frankly anyone who deeply understands the cognitive architecture, feel a lot less safe in their underlying assumptions.