For all we know about intelligence/consciousness, it may be an emergent behaviour of complex systems. See this cool this paper, "Theory of Mind May Have Sponta

For all we know about intelligence/consciousness, it may be an emergent behaviour of complex systems. See this cool this paper, "Theory of Mind May Have Spontaneously Emerged in Large Language Models" https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.02083 https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.02083