I have to agree in a sense. Maybe one thing necessary for having a 'sense of self' is the ability to recognise and reflect on how you relate to other things. T

I have to agree in a sense. Maybe one thing necessary for having a 'sense of self' is the ability to recognise and reflect on how you relate to other things. The experiment described seems to be implying that having no such relationships but still the ability is enough. I don't think it is. Following on from this, do LLMs have this ability or is it more likely that they simply appear to? Even if some form of AI could recognise and reflect on how it relates to other things, what is there to differentiate how it treats relationships between other things and relationships between itself and other things? Could you not just program it to define 'itself' as some other node in that network of relationships, and wouldn't that just invalidate any argument that it ever really has a sense of self? Obviously I'm just thinking out loud here and assuming that a 'sense of self' is a necessary part of any definition for consciousness.