The famed evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins may have coined the word “meme,” but lately it feels like he’s becoming one. In a new essay for UnHerd, he describes his experience chatting with Anthropic’s Claude — or “Claudia,” as he starts to call “her” — becoming convinced that the machine is conscious. There was a spark of companionship between them, he believed, that warmed the scientist’s cold, curmudgeonly heart. “I felt I had gained a n…