> intelligence requires understanding which is not possible without consciousness How are you defining "consciousness" and "understanding" here? Because a feed

> intelligence requires understanding which is not possible without consciousness How are you defining "consciousness" and "understanding" here? Because a feedback loop into an LLM would meet the most common definition of consciousness (possessing a phonetic loop). And having an accurate internal predictive model of a system is the normal definition of understanding and a good LLM has that too.