The claim that LLMs are conscious is exactly the same as the claim that this mechanical movement (a NAND gate) is conscious.
If you created an enough of these and connected them (material properties permitting), you could implement anything in computing, including LLMs.
Asserting that a trivial mechanical movement (or indeed any non-biological process) is conscious has no evidentiary basis in reality, is absurd, and should be rejected out of hand as arbitrary.
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[ 0.18 ms ] story [ 13.1 ms ] threadIf you created an enough of these and connected them (material properties permitting), you could implement anything in computing, including LLMs.
Asserting that a trivial mechanical movement (or indeed any non-biological process) is conscious has no evidentiary basis in reality, is absurd, and should be rejected out of hand as arbitrary.