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"They" don't "care" about anything. It is a stateless computational run across thousands of semiconductors. There is no objective this software has other than the computational function completing. To care would mean the model would have a level of discernment that goes along with sentience.

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The supposed "magicality" of human consciousness is hard to reconcile with evolution -- where on that long path from amoeba to homo sapiens did God (PBUH) implant our connections to the soul realm?

Even evolution-deniers run into difficult-to-justify self-contradictions when trying to explain how the supposed supernatural part of our consciousness is both affecting the natural world and affected by the natural world, but not part of it.

You are kind of ignoring the Dennett's idea of different stances: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intentional_stance

You're looking at humans from intentional stance, but at LLMs from design stance, which would be a form of categorical error.

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