> But I would listen to a robot if and only if I believed it could tell me of its own experience... By relating an alien experience with metaphor in rhythm to a

> But I would listen to a robot if and only if I believed it could tell me of its own experience... By relating an alien experience with metaphor in rhythm to a popping dance groove. Isn't this almost equivalent to saying "I would listen to a robot if and only if it was human?". A robot that could tell you its experience would be a living thing. An LLM cannot tell you its "own experience" because it has none. You'd be asking it to be human, or human-like (or even animal-like).