> It absolutely follows. You changed the deduction I described thus moving the goalposts. I'm not going to argue a point I never made. Suffice it to say, the o

> It absolutely follows. You changed the deduction I described thus moving the goalposts. I'm not going to argue a point I never made. Suffice it to say, the only people assuming anything about LLMs are the ones claiming they're not sentient. > It would be unbelievably weird if we reverse engineered consciousness without understanding how our bodies generate consciousness I find it weird that you think this would be weird. Most discoveries are like this. We mastered fire before we understood chemistry, we mastered flight before we understood how birds fly, we have a booming pharmaceutical industry and we still don't really know how most drugs work. Theory and formal understanding often follow discovery and practical applications, not the other way around. Consciousness and/or sentience will be created before we understand it, and we will only retrospectively recognize that fact. We may have already created it in fact.