[fallingknife]

Or like saying the photoreceptors in your retina understand when it's dark. Or like claiming the temperature sensitive ion channels in your peripheral nervous system understand how hot it is.

[throw4847285]

This is a fallacy I've seen enough on here that I think it needs a name. Maybe the fallacy of Theoretical Reducibility (doesn't really roll off the tongue)?

When challenged, everybody becomes an eliminative materialist even if it's inconsistent with their other views. It's very weird.

[throwuxiytayq]

Or like saying that the tangled web of neurons receiving signals from these understands anything about these subjects.

[nativeit]

Describing the mechanics of nervous impulses != describing consciousness.

[LordDragonfang]

Which is the point, since describing the mechanics of LLM architectures do not inherently grant knowledge of whether or not it is "conscious"