Comment by dtj1123

Dismissing outright the possibility that an LLM harbors some form of consciousness is as dumb as asserting that it definitely does.

We have no litmus test for consciousness. We have no definition of consciousness with which to tell a conscious process from an unconscious one. If you think this is just a cute shower thought with no real implications, I'd encourage you to read up on some open problems in philosophy that are direct consequences:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panpsychism

LLMs might be conscious, we don't know.