[layer8]

An LLM’s training could be seen as lived experience, and the fact that LLMs can output long sequences from their training material can be interpreted as them remembering those parts.

Also, how does that relate to consciousness? I don’t think that past episodic memory is necessary for consciousness.

[micromacrofoot]

you can't be conscious about your decisions if you don't incorporate their effects into your corpus — knowing the results of other people's actions secondhand isn't the same because you're not those people