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Imagine an LLM that behaves like a person in some ways but runs on completely different physical stuff (microchips instead of a biological brain). Would this LLM be conscious? There is a lot of experimental philosophy research on precisely this question markmphelan.github.io/papers/consc...

One view: People are more likely to attribute consciousness to an entity when it is EMBODIED - i.e., when it has a biological body In experimental philosophy, there's a big debate about whether this view is true, with lots of intriguing evidence on each side

The link above is to a very nice paper by Phelan that reviews this whole debate (Phelan is on the opposite side of the debate from me, but I still think this is a great review)