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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is language conscious?

Are atoms?

I don't know if LLMs of a large enough size can achieve (or sufficiently emulate) consciousness, but I do know that we barely know anything about consciousness, let alone it's limits.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Saying "we don't know, and it's complicated, therefore there's a chance, maybe, depending" is barely the beginning of an argument.