Comment by vidarh

We only need to assume the hypothesis that brains don't exceed the Turing computable to say that LLMs have the same computational power as a brain.

We can't prove it, but given the total absence of evidence of anything exceeding the Turing computable, as a hypothesis it is a reasonable one that would require truly extraordinary evidence to rise above "magical thinking".

Now, that is also far from proving they are "conscious".