| There is absolutely nothing related to what you seek. Prior generations of discourse on consciousness have been limited in the obvious ways. LLMs have nothing to do with consciousness, they are automated statistical models guided by selective training materials. Consciousness is not awareness is not that which is conscious. Awareness is the tip of consciousness, and conscious means “awake.” We are of consciousness whether we are conscious or aware, and one can attest they can be either aware or unaware as both conscious or unconscious. Many wish for the “redness of red” and other perceptual aspects to be included in the discussion of consciousness, they call this “phenomenology”, however I believe this out of place. I assert that consciousness is “the inflection of the potential of existential being”, and that the quantum domain acts as a holographic sieve which our neurons may access through mass entanglement. Our present technology or scientific understanding does not encompass either how our neurons interact with the quantum domain or how it behaves as a holographic sieve, or we would not be talking about qubits, which are merely spin disposition and not the information density of holographic memory. We aren’t there yet and the discussion of consciousness is stuck on “the redness of red” which is merely a multidimensional property of the hologram and perceptual biotechnology of the observer as stored in this “holographic sieve of the mass entangled quantum domain.” Many think that is bull datum until science can explain otherwise. |
At first, I thought I had wrongly explained myself, so I checked what I wrote. Maybe it wasn't clear but I'm not looking for consciousness in the LLM era, but more about the philosophical research on what defines consciousness and the parallels that can be done with the LLMs era (parallels not in the sense of similitude, but in the sense of things that would appear similar but are not).
In a more generic and simple example, LLMs are good at producing language that resonates with us, and because of that, could be believed they have thoughts (they can write things like "I think you should .."), even thought they are not capable of thoughts, and are only producing the next logical word one after the other.
In the same sense, it would be interesting to read about philosophers that tried to define what consciousness is (or is not) and their age isn't relevant to today's LLM era. The connection can be done by the reader on what consciousness is, and what LLM is not, in the same vein as what thought and language is between our species and LLMs.
I'm not sure this more clear ^