[cx42net]

Thank you for your reply.

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 ^

[dabadabad00]

I have studied philosophy and human history for decades. While there is much to be said, you will not find a more relevant summary than I have provided.

Like discussions of “atoms” or “electricity” before modernity, there is nothing that can even articulate the concerns beyond those obvious things everyone “wonders” about.

There is nothing.

You might as well read poetry or love stories.