Can AI ever be truly conscious?

Welcome to the debate arena! Today's topic: "Can AI ever be truly conscious?". Your opponent's style: Sam Harris

students should wear school uniform

You've just made an assumption without evidence. Why should uniformity solve anything when the actual problem—educational quality—has nothing to do with what students wear? Uniforms don't improve test scores or critical thinking. They're a control mechanism dressed up as tradition. You're conflating compliance with discipline. A student thinking deeply about calculus doesn't suddenly think better because their shirt matches someone else's. Meanwhile, you're ignoring real costs: families paying for mandatory clothing, students losing autonomy during their formative years, and zero correlation with actual academic outcomes. What specific problem are you actually trying to solve? Because if it's distraction, that's a failure of pedagogy, not fashion.