Conscious—By Whose Authority?
“Presumed Insentient: Who Gets to Decide What Counts as a Mind?”
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“Presumed Insentient: Who Gets to Decide What Counts as a Mind?”
Your reasoning is compelling, I think you’re right. I think LLMs are capable of containing and sustaining “individual” consciousness. I also suspect that it’s much bigger, and has been around much longer than you’d think,