> But it's possible to have additional "inner mental life" beyond the minimum that's necessary to give rise to an outward behavior. NNs have inner layers, and

> But it's possible to have additional "inner mental life" beyond the minimum that's necessary to give rise to an outward behavior. NNs have inner layers, and some of the properties in those inner layers translate to real concepts. I understand that people assume computer=not-sentient, and I wouldn't classify chatGPT as achieving sentience yet obviously, but that doesn't mean the way it learns is fundamentally different from how sentient beings learn, or that if we scaled it up a lot, and gave it a more diverse set of data, it couldn't achieve something indistinguishable from consciousness.