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Actually, I propose you're a p-zombie executing an algorithm that led you to post this content, and that you are not actually a conscious being...

That is unless you have a well defined means of explaining what consciousness/sentience is without saying "I have it and X does not" that you care to share with us.

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Thing is that other humans have the same biology as ourselves, so saying they're not conscious would mean we're (or really just me) are special somehow in a way that isn't based on biology. That or the metaphysical conclusion is solipsistic. Only you (I, whoever) exists and is hallucinating the entire universe.

I found Bostom's Superintelligence to be the most boring Scifi I have ever read.

I think it's probably possible to create a digital sentience. But LLM ain't it.

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