Thanks for the response. ChatGPT isn't put in a VR environment, has no sensory input, and receives the entire chat so far in each response, it is completely tra

Thanks for the response. ChatGPT isn't put in a VR environment, has no sensory input, and receives the entire chat so far in each response, it is completely transient. So there's really no need to jump to consciousness or sentience. Instead we can simply focus on whether it is thinking successfully, without needing to address any issue of consciousness. Let's be careful of not falling into "is a submarine swimming?" Obviously it's processsing while it is working, we can see it from its delays and while it spits out text. So the real reason we're having this discussion is to see whether the processing amounts to any useful manipulation of concepts. Personally, I find those manipulations useful. To me that means it is thinking. Otherwise why would I be interacting with it so much in an interactive way?