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by peddling-brink 942 days ago
> there's no entity in the system to even be subject to thoughts or feelings.

Can our brain be described mathematically? If not today, then ever?

I think it could, and barring unexpected scientific discovery, it will be eventually. Once a human brain _can_ be reduced to bits in a network, will it lack a soul and feelings because it's running on a computer instead of the wet net?

Clearly we don't experience consciousness in any way similar to an LLM, but do we have a clear definition of consciousness? Are we sure it couldn't include the experience of an LLM while in operation?

> Data goes in, it's operated on, and data comes out.

How is this fundamentally different than our own lived experience? We need inputs, we express outputs.

> I mean you can argue all kinds of possibilities and in an abstract enough way anything can be true.

It's also easy to close your mind too tightly.