[tenuousemphasis]

Do you really think consciousness lives in energetic meat?

[notahacker]

Mine does. You're are of course free to assert that you're unconscious or posit that you have a vector multiplication based soul...

[xyzal]

Does consciousness consist only of language?

[ben_w]

Language is what LLMs are trained on, their environment; what LLMs are (at least today) is some combination of Transformer and Diffusion models that can also be (and sometimes is actually also) trained on images and video and sound.