alt Hacker News> 1. Conflates consciousness with "thinking" - LLMs may process information effectively without being conscious, but the article treats these as the same phenomenon
There is NO WAY you can define "consciousness" in such a non-tautological, non-circular way that it includes all humans but excludes all LLMs.
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tim333 • yesterday at 12:24 AM
>NO WAY you can define "consciousness" ... that it includes all humans but excludes all LLMs
That doesn't seem so hard - how about awareness of thoughts feelings, emotions and what's going on around you? Fairly close to human consciousness, excludes current LLMs.
I don't think it's very relevant to the article though which very sensibly avoids the topic and sticks to thinking.
You could have stopped here: "There is NO WAY you can define "consciousness"