[mistermann]

> I do not think of my argument rests on the degree to which I am an LLM.

That's the point - in fact, I would even speculate that you are may not be [currently] able to.

> I was fairly specific in speaking about the ways in which an LLM is different and the ways in which it lacks the functional capacity to be aware of itself.

Right, but don't forget that this is what you think, and what one thinks is typically what one "sees".

> What I am saying is that an LLM is definitely not aware of itself.

I tend to lean strongly in that direction as well, but I am a ~~strict epistemologist~~ pedant (in ~colloquial reality).