[CooCooCaCha]

I've sometimes wondered if consciousness is something like a continuous internal narrative that naturally arises when an intelligent system experiences the world through a single source (like a body). That sounds similar to what you're saying.

Regardless, I think people tend to take consciousness a bit too seriously and my intuition is consciousness is going to have a similar fate to the heliocentric model of the universe. In other words, we'll discover that consciousness isn't really "special" just like we found out that the earth is just another planet among trillions and trillions.

[concrete_head]

I've wondered if LLMs are infact conscious as per some underwhelming definition as you mentioned. Just for the brief moment they operate on a prompt. They wake up, they perceive their world through tokens, do a few thinking loops then sleep until the next prompt.

So what? Should we feel bad for spawning them and effectively killing them? I think not.