[AnimalMuppet]

Fair. But a not conscious entity would absolutely be constrained by its training corpus. And, since there are no non-conscious entities in its training corpus, it would not respond like a non-conscious entity. It would respond like a person would when they get asked if they are conscious, since that's all that's in the training data.

So if it responded that it's conscious, that doesn't tell you anything. It's either the truth, or it's what's in the training data. But if it responds that it's not conscious, that does tell you something. It tells you that it's not responding from consciousness, and it's not responding from training data.