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A chatbot doesn't do anything until you hit enter. It's not conscious.
Consciousness is agency and continuity (continuously, and memory of past). If you put a Claude in a robot, left it on, and let it have consequences for its actions, and had it adjust its network weights from experience, then it could be said to be conscious.
The confusion for Dawkins is that maybe 99% of our brain is entirely devoted to predicting the future; it must be the case because there's not enough time to react to any other animal that does so. So a chatbot can mimic this 99% and do things people do, but it's that 1% magic added by evolution that is consciousness.
What are you babbling about? Are you actually conscious?
Are you just making shit up because it makes your argument sound good? You do realize you're doing exactly what Dawkins does every day.
It's been studied. For example, Canada measured drivers' reaction times to unexpected events and found between 1 and up to 5 seconds, with an average of about 2.5. That's not fast enough to be the primary way we do anything.
You can do the trick where somebody drops a measuring stick and measure your reaction time. If you're in a fight with somebody that knows what you're going to do before you do it then 0.2s is nowhere near fast enough.
But it's also common sense; if you can predict what your adversary is going to do and they can't predict then you obviously have a massive advantage. So if we're not built for that then the only reason that would be is because evolution couldn't make it happen. Evolution put a monkey on a rocket so probably figured that one out.
The only thing that's subjective here is how much of our brain is devoted to prediction, but I qualified that as obviously my opinion.