You are assuming the answer to the question. Which is: how should we decide if the LLM is a "consciousness"? Your answer is: LOL of course it's not.
FWIW i agree. But if chat passes a Turing test for (say) 80% of average users, are we gonna decide it's alive? Or do we need a different test
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