alt Hacker NewsWe do not actually know what consciousness is, but we know we have it, in spite of our brains also just being a big blob of simple biological weighted functions that react to the hallucination our brains generate from external sensors we evolved. There is no guarantee other humans even perceive the same simulation we do!
The reality is we have no way to measure consciousness or how it emerges, or how to tell if other humans actually experience it the same way we do, so confident statements about consciousness being unable to emerge from simple weighted functions is baseless projection, wishing ourselves more special than an emergent property of the bag of weighted functions in our heads.
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> but we know we have it
Do we? We only know that at most one thinking person believes they have it, and everyone else claims they have it.
"our brains also just being a big blob of simple biological weighted functions"
Describing the human brain in terms of how LLMs work is an interesting rhetorical tactic.
You don't know how the human brain works, nobody really does, but you have chosen an analogy that supports your position. Which says more about you than anything about whether LLMs should have rights.