[vba616]

>You can't say for sure that ChatGPT doesn't experience anything. And I can't say for sure that you do, either.

The question rattling around in my brain tonight is - if some, many, people don't develop a theory of mind as young children, how many of the people around me are like this? Is it just the philosophers?

It seems of much more moment than the essence of ChatGPT.

[messe]

Given how many people in this thread don’t seem to grasp the idea of qualia, and think the hard problem of consciousness to be easy, I’m not entirely unconvinced I’m surrounded by a bunch of imperfect p-zombies.

[vba616]

People without a theory of mind are not p-zombies. They are people who see others as p-zombies.

Given that, I'm not sure how to interpret your comment as it seems to describe an invalid inference.