Comment by dtj1123
6 months ago
Where exactly in my description do I invoke consciousness?
Where does the description given imply that consciousness is required in any way?
The fact that there's a non-obvious emergent phenomena which is apparently responsible for your subjective experience, and that it's possible to provide a superficially accurate description of you as a system without referencing that phenomena in any way, is my entire point. The fact that we can provide such a reductive description of LLMs without referencing consciousness has literally no bearing on whether or not they're conscious.
To be clear, I'm not making a claim as to whether they are or aren't, I'm simply pointing out that the argument in the article is fallacious.
My bad, we are saying the same thing. I misinterpreted your last sentence as saying this simplistic view of the brain you described does not account for consciousness.
Ultimately my bad for letting my original comment turn into a word salad. Glad we've ended up on the same page though.