[Yizahi]

You are using word "math" in a magical way. Current LLM programs are reducible to math and human cognition is reducible to math (which is a reasonable hypothesis). What you are implying is that just because word math is used in both sentences it actually means the same thing. And that is a magical thinking. Just because human cognition is reducible to math (let's assume that for sake of discussion) doesn't mean it's the same math as in the LLM programs, or even close enough. Or maybe it is, but we don't have any proof yet.

[nkoren]

I agree with this. I'm not arguing that LLMs are conscious. We don't understand the math behind how our brains work; we don't know how close or far LLMs are to that; and we don't know how many different pathways to consciousness there are within math.

All I'm saying is that the argument that "It's not consciousness, it's just <insert any tangentially mathematical claim here>", is dogma. Given everything that we don't know, agnosticism is the appropriate response.