A lot of people here seem pretty confused about what you can actually claim about consciousness based on external observation. As far as we can tell, consciousn

A lot of people here seem pretty confused about what you can actually claim about consciousness based on external observation. As far as we can tell, consciousness is an emergent phenomenon of complex interconnected systems like neurons in a brain or maybe processing units in a supercomputer. If you want to say "it's not sentient because this is a non-sequitor, that's a leading question, it clearly doesn't actually understand what it's being asked or saying" then that would be a position worth entertaining. "It's just a GPT-3 model" is not. Your brain, at it's core, is made up of the dumbest stuff imaginable: matter, energy, and the laws of physics. And yet, somehow consciousness emerges. So please stop claiming that you can know what gives rise to consciousness.