[nomel]

Here's a question I personally think is interesting, with the assumption that consciousness is a spectrum (trivially proven by administering neurotoxins to a healthy individual).

Is a squirrel more or less conscious than a dog.

Is a dog more or less conscious than a gorilla.

Is a gorilla more or less conscious than a human?

Is a vision enabled AI model, hooked to a camera feed, more or less conscious than a dog?

[Foskya]

Animals (humans included) work on the same "framework" (i.e., the brain), so even if the definition of consciousness is fuzzy, we can rank them in a more or less consistent way. LLMs, on the other hand, are just the linguistic part of a brain without anything else. Whether this is enough to be conscious is up for debate (in my opinion no, but that's irrelevant), but it falls outside the spectrum assumption IMO.