[jmull]

Regardless, the question still stands: "What does computers getting more intelligent has to do with it getting conscious?"

Just because consciousness emerged for we humans and other animals through one mechanism doesn't mean consciousness has/will/can emerge from current LLM technology.

For this extraordinary claim, I think the burden is firmly on those who are arguing that it has/will/can.

[wvbdmp]

The other point of view is that the burden is on those who suggest that biological consciousness is somehow special. What makes it so, and if the answer isn’t metaphysical, what’s stopping us from constructing it artificially?

[ikrenji]

how is anyone supposed to decide if something is conscious if no one has the slightest idea what consciousness really is