[eric-p7]

There are no properties of matter or energy that can have a sense of self or experience qualia. Yet we all do. Denying the hard problem of consciousness just slows down our progress in discovering what it is.

[red75prime]

We need a difference to discover what it is. How can we know that all LLMs don't?

[eric-p7]

If you tediously work out the LLM math by hand, is the pen and paper conscious too?

Consciousness is not computation. You need something else.

[thfuran]

Even if they do, it can only be transiently during the inference process. Unlike a brain that is constantly undergoing dynamic electrochemical processes, an LLM is just an inert pile of data except when the model is being executed.

[estearum]

(Hint: I am not denying the hard problem of consciousness ;) )