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The problem again is that (a) other forms of consciousness exist eg octopuses (b) I cannot get into the shoes of you or an LLM and see if I feel or think, so we only have external effects to go by. For things that look and seem so much like consciousness, I am rather cautious.
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An octopus still has around 500 million neurons so that's not really a counterexample. Humans and octopuses are far more similar than humans and LLMs.



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