To run with the example, GPT-3 is obviously not self-aware, and therefore cannot feel pain or have a sense of self. But what if we change that? Run a recurrent

To run with the example, GPT-3 is obviously not self-aware, and therefore cannot feel pain or have a sense of self. But what if we change that? Run a recurrent GPT-3 instance where (a) some of its prompt input is a description of the current state of its own process, system, and environs, (b) the prompt defines certain of these stimuli as "painful" and to be avoided (and others "joyful" and to be sought out), and (c) the prompt instructs GPT-3 to respond as an individual experiencing these phenomena. What then visibly/measurably differentiates this "self-aware" GPT-3 server from any other conscious entity? Or is consciousness necessarily not visible/measurable and thus unscientific? Moreover -- what if consciousness is easy to create, simply by meeting the requirements of self-awareness, and ability to experience and respond to qualia? Having a tool like GPT-3, which can compute how existing conscious beings might react to any given qualia, just makes such an artificial consciousness more intelligent and relatable.