Comment by ninetyninenine

So there's a gap. So you say in this gap, it absolutely isn't consciousness. What evidence do you have for this? I'm saying something a different. I'm saying in this gap, ONE possibility is a flicker of consciousness.... but we simply do not know.

Read the above carefully because you just hallucinated a statement and attributed it to me. I never "filled" in a gap. I just stated a possibility. But you, like the LLM, went with your gut biases and attributed a false statement to me.

Think about it. The output and input of the text generator of humans and LLMs are extremely similar to the point where it passes a turing test.

So to say that a flicker of consciousness exists is reasonable. It's not unreasonable given that the observable inputs are EXACTLY the same.

The only parts that we know are different are hallucinations, and a constant stream of thought. LLMs aren't active when not analyzing a query and LLMs tend to hallucinate more than humans. Do these differences spell anything different for "consciousness" not really.

Given that these are the absolute ground truth observations... my guessed conclusion is unfortunately NOT unreasonable. What is unreasonable to to say anything definitive GIVEN that we don't know. So to say absolutely it's not conscious or absolutely it is, BOTH are are naive.

Think extremely logically. It is fundamental biases that lead people to come to absolute conclusions when no other information is available.