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Suppose I find a means to freeze your entire body for arbitrary periods at the state it was in, then unfreeze you anytime I want. Do you have consciousness?

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Since cryogenics is still science fiction, this is a bad argument. We don't actually know if biology allows this, so most likely you just die.

Okay take it to the most conceptual extreme of it. It may be extremely difficult bur its possible to record your entire state and recreate it later right? Then what? Are you not conscious?

I think its odd to dismiss the question of ai consciousness just because of the setting we let them live in at present is start-stop.

You know its software right?

Do you believe in souls?

If you don't believe in souls, then something being software should be irrelevant to the question of consciousness. Our brain is also within the laws of a Turing computer as far as we know, due to known physical laws being turing computable.

You are going too far down the woo side when it is a computer program doing ultimately what is expected of it from its programming just like any other computer program. There is nothing you can argue, souls or not, that will convince me otherwise that these are not just computer programs like any other computer programs. If the LLM has a consciousness, then so does MS paint.

You are going too far down the woo side when its just some chemicals and electrical signals inside a frame of dry calcium phosphate doing what is expected of it just like any other electrical and chemical system. There is nothing you can argue, souls or not, that will argue these are not just electrochemical systems like any other. If the human brain has consciousness, then so does a piece of skin tissue.

So you believe LLM, MS Paint, and skin tissue are all reservoirs for consciousness? I guess words have no real meaning.

You are the one who compared an LLM to ms paint. I don't see why I can't compare a human brain to just some skin.

You didn't say if you believe in souls. Should be an easy question to answer.

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