There’s been an immense amount of discussion about Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT over the last year, of course. Some of that discussion has been whether they are intelligent, conscious, or on the path to Artificial General Intelligence. I’m particularly interested in the “consciousness” question, as it was an area of personal interest when I was working as a cognitive scientist, in a prior career. I never did research on the topic, but I read plenty of philosophers of m...
