On the phenomenological shift known as stream entry and its implications for consciousness

I’d like to thank Guy for the conversation we had on 26 November 2025. This post is also available on lesswrong.com . Late last year, the rationalist community leader and artificial intelligence researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky claimed that chickens do not have qualia : This caused something of a stir – for what seem to me like obvious reasons . Apparently Eliezer has said similar things before, in a…