Comment by syrgian
5 hours ago
Let's say we were in an alternative reality were we had reached this quality of token prediction with just Markov chains. Would you argue that those would also be conscious? Or is the obfuscated behavior of transformers part of the possibility of consciousness?
Well if that's all that's required then yes. It's merely the substrate. But we know that's unlikely.
It's the emergent properties that matter. In abstract. Separate the physical and abstract of what is going on here
An alien gas cloud may be out there and sentient/conscious for all we know.