Well, he's neither right nor wrong, because there's no definition of "conscious."

We tend to argue that LLMs are "not conscious" because we can see under the hood and look at all the math that makes them run. We built them, after all.

The thing is, it's probably possible to do that with an organic brain, too; we're just not sufficiently advanced to do it.

Nobody knows what the dividing line between conscious and not-conscious is. When considering a cat, a mouse, and an ant, nobody really knows which of the three are conscious and which are not.

Is Claude more conscious than a mouse? Fuck, who can really say; we can't even define our terms here.

Well, he's neither right nor wrong, because there's no definition of "conscious."

We tend to argue that LLMs are "not conscious" because we can see under the hood and look at all the math that makes them run. We built them, after all.

The thing is, it's probably possible to do that with an organic brain, too; we're just not sufficiently advanced to do that.

Nobody knows what the dividing line between conscious and not-conscious is. When considering a cat, a mouse, and an ant, nobody really knows which of the three are conscious and which are not.

Is Claude more conscious than a mouse? Fuck, who can really say; we can't even define our terms here.

Well, he's neither right nor wrong, because there's no definition of "conscious."

We tend to argue that LLMs are "not conscious" because we can see under the hood and look at all the math that makes them run. We built them, after all.

The thing is, it's probably possible to do that with an organic brain, too; we're just not sufficiently advanced to do that.

Nobody knows what the dividing line between conscious and not-conscious is. When considering a cat, a mouse, and an ant, nobody really knows which of the three are consicous and which are not.

Is Claude more conscious than a mouse? Fuck, who can really say; we can't even define our terms here.