> Our conscious mind is much more of a facade than we typically imagine. It patently is not, but I can see how it’s easy to believe it to be so. When you juxta

> Our conscious mind is much more of a facade than we typically imagine. It patently is not, but I can see how it’s easy to believe it to be so. When you juxtapose the behavior of self-conscious organisms against reactive behavior, such as that observed during sentience-level consciousness, it’s easier to tease apart properties inherent to the conscious mind. For example, an LLM is going to have a hard time adjusting its behavior in an anticipatory manner to another organism, as their capacity for self-learning is currently limited. But even relatively simple-minded animals with relatively higher-level cognition will adjust responses not only based on prompts, but also on their own nascent understanding of what’s expected behavior given a situation by continually adapting and forecasting, which is different from simply forecasting. I got interested in LLMs because of all the hype around their capabilities, but even simpler-than-human minds are doing much more complex stuff than generating the next probable step.