The answer to that can be anything anyone would like it to be, depending on what definition of "self" they choose.
I don't see why hardware is any more fungible than a kidney. If your LLM reads the serial numbers of its motherboard/RAM/etc as a seed for entropy you can make identical arguments about body fungibility and self.
The answer to that can be anything anyone would like it to be, depending on what definition of "self" they choose.
I don't see why hardware is any more fungible than a kidney. If your LLM reads the serial numbers of its motherboard/RAM/etc as a seed for entropy you can make identical arguments about body fungibility and self.