I want to throw something out here: Insects, US, animals, all have two things in common, and thinking about them may prove very useful in this context: (1) -

I want to throw something out here: Insects, US, animals, all have two things in common, and thinking about them may prove very useful in this context: (1) - Ongoing stream of what I will call input experience. What we see, feel, hear, etc... (2) - Internal input experience sufficient for the entity to operate and as part of that operation, differentiate itself from everything else. Number one is easy. Number two may be important to understand where consciousness comes from. And yes, I am saying consciousness may be an emergent thing that will emerge on some level given the entity is sophisticated enough to understand itself. Think about your own body. We have nerves and can and do get input about how that body is interacting with literally everything else! From that comes a very basic "self" ChatGPT is something in a box! It has no real sense. It cannot know it's own self. There simply is no context, no data it can use to understand. And it has no real memory. Say the sense data was there. It would have to be prompted in every time. Here is what I am getting at: Say we give ChatGPT the robust and complex sensations needed for it to differentiate itself from everything else? And then we put it on a loop so it can take input from us in that context. And it can remember. Suddenly, asking it a question interrupts it's stream of experiences! And see where that could lead?