The definitions of all these words have been going back and forward and never reached any 100% consensus anyways, so what one person understands of "thinking", "conscious", "intelligence" and so on seems to be vastly different from another person.

I guess this is why any discussion around this ends up with huge conversations, everyone is talking from their own perspective and understanding, while others have different ones, and we're all talking past each other.

There is a whole field trying to just nail down what "knowledge" actually is/isn't, and those people haven't agreed with each other for the duration of hundreds of years, I'm not confident we'll suddenly get a lot better at this.

I guess ultimately, regardless of what the LLMs do, does it matter? Would we understand them better/worse depending on what the answer would be?