| > 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. |