2026-10-21 23:02 UTC
That first sentence describes all life. We only react to input. We don’t have independent ideas. We have the illusion of them, because we can’t see our own neural networks. Asked to explain your actions, you would give your best guesses, but you don’t actually know. You’re a biological, finite-state machine, moving from state-to-state based on stimulii, while supposing you are a thinking individual in control.
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@TootGuitar@sh.itjust.works 2026-10-22 00:22
Citation needed on all of this, and even if you have citations, LLMs are deterministic, and do not learn or change over time. They can’t even be said to exist continuously since they only exist during the brief time that they’re responding to inputs, and then they disappear until the next input. I would argue that all of these things would need to change in order for them to be able to have consciousness.