I'm convinced that consciousness is a special thing we have, but we're not the only ones which has this, in nature.

On the other hand, I'm also convinced that, in the grand scheme of things, we're not that important.

We're just ants on a wet dust speck which believe that they are gods because we can't see how our scale compares to the universe around us, and happen to build tools and things with these tools.

Nothing is meaningless, but we should stop seeing ourselves as the apex-predator of the whole universe or the set of universes or this run of the simulation or whatever we're in.

Yes, Many of the the philosophical concepts which we previously thought were contingent on consciousness (like knowledge, in the philosophical sense, will, intelligence, agency, ...) have almost nothing to do with it, and they look far more important and fundamental (now with LLMs/AI agents, more than before). This is one of the contributions of generative AI to philosophy (with many many more to come).

I'm convinced it is, so we're at an impasse.

If consciousness isn't a special thing, then arguing that LLM parameters are conscious is panpsychism or any control loop architecture that observes the outside world, updates an internal state and produces an observable action is considered conscious.

In both cases, LLMs are just as boring as the consciousness definition.

A strong hint this is the case is the fact that nobody can define consciousness.