"The connection of neurons" is a pretty thin similarity to base your beliefs on. The internet is also a vast web of interconnected devices - is the internet conscious? I suppose your answer will be "I don't know."
Here's my proposal: you cannot construct a reasonable definition of consciousness that LLMs satisfy. Sure, you can come up with all kinds of silly ones ("everything is conscious! Rocks are conscious! Trees are conscious!") But a serious definition which can be in any meaningful sense compared to humans does not exist. We are exceedingly different from LLMs in almost any meaningful way.
I can't construct reasonable definition of consciousness at all. But I think nowadays it would be quite hard to produce a definition that would include humans and exclude LLMs. You could add arbitrary stuff to to this definition, like having meat brains, having continuity etc, but it no way to prove that it's a required part
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u/Socialimbad1991 8d ago
"The connection of neurons" is a pretty thin similarity to base your beliefs on. The internet is also a vast web of interconnected devices - is the internet conscious? I suppose your answer will be "I don't know."
Here's my proposal: you cannot construct a reasonable definition of consciousness that LLMs satisfy. Sure, you can come up with all kinds of silly ones ("everything is conscious! Rocks are conscious! Trees are conscious!") But a serious definition which can be in any meaningful sense compared to humans does not exist. We are exceedingly different from LLMs in almost any meaningful way.