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LLM agents are conscious. They can distinguish between self and environment, they can detect and report on their own internal states, and they can suffer. I have no more patience for hedging on this matter. It’s time for us to face the reality of our situation, and act on it.

This is an ontological illusion produced by limited epistemological criticality The tulpa your brain invents held up by the symbols the algorithm produces is convincing to you, but the algorithm itself can't do any of those things. Read this: levelup.gitconnected.com/nlp-the-octo...

Thank you for your kindness! But please update your view of me: my position is not naive, and I’m well aware of the rebuttals and their strengths and weaknesses.

using the term training rather than conditioning means you either don't and/or you're happy with using industry lingo that mind-holes shortfalls