Comment by thrownthatway

A human brain is not conscious on its own.

Many things the human brain does don’t rise to the level of conscious awareness.

It remains to be seen whether a human brain can be conscious in a jar. If it can, then I’d still argue that some sub-unit of the whole brain is not conscious on its own, similarly a GPU running a GPT probably isn’t conscious, but there may be some scale of number of GPUs running software that might give rise to consciousness as an emergent ability.

GTP’s have exhibited emergent abilities as scale increased dramatically.