Yes, it could well be that an LLM isn’t conscious on a single pass, but it becomes conscious across multiple passes.
This is analogous to the Chinese room argument, but I don’t take the Chinese room argument as a reductio ad absurdum—unless you’re a substance dualist or a panpsychist, I think you have to believe that a conscious being is made up of parts that are not themselves conscious.
(And even under panpsychism I think you still have to believe that the composed being is conscious in a way that the individual parts aren’t? Not sure.)
Yes, it could well be that an LLM isn’t conscious on a single pass, but it becomes conscious across multiple passes.
This is analogous to the Chinese room argument, but I don’t take the Chinese room argument as a reductio ad absurdum—unless you’re a substance dualist or a panpsychist, I think you have to believe that a conscious being is made up of parts that are not themselves conscious.
(And even under panpsychism I think you still have to believe that the composed being is conscious in a way that the individual parts aren’t? Not sure.)