ok so this is difficult to explain: the difference between consciousness and whatever LLMs are doing is that computers lack the experience that living beings make. the reason why LLMs will never be reliable, i.e. not make grave mistakes, is because they lack a concept of responsibility, i.e. they are careless because there’s nothing on the line for them. they don’t know what it’s like to make a mistake and be wiped out from existence, trained over billions of years to not make these mistakes. meanwhile, living beings do. and that’s the difference.
Yeah I mean hypothetically… A lot of things are possible. It’s just always the question whether they’re part of reality.
And I need some way how to handle things. For example I’m fairly sure the apple tree and the lawn in my backyard are alive. I sometimes use sharp rotating knifes to cut down the lawn. I’ll also cut parts off of the tree, eat it’s fruits… Does it have an effect on those living organisms? Sure. They even react to their surroundings, the seasons, dryness. The tree reacts to branches being removed. But for some reason we think it’s alright to mess with them. But for some reasons we don’t think it’s okay to cut off limbs off of the bird that sometimes sits on the tree… There seems to be some differentiating factor(s), even amongst living entities.