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EncomLab ◴[] No.43612568[source]
This is like claiming a photorestor controlled night light "understands when it is dark" or that a bimetallic strip thermostat "understands temperature". You can say those words, and it's syntactically correct but entirely incorrect semantically.
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fallingknife ◴[] No.43612691[source]
Or like saying the photoreceptors in your retina understand when it's dark. Or like claiming the temperature sensitive ion channels in your peripheral nervous system understand how hot it is.
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nativeit ◴[] No.43612981[source]
Describing the mechanics of nervous impulses != describing consciousness.
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1. LordDragonfang ◴[] No.43613340[source]
Which is the point, since describing the mechanics of LLM architectures do not inherently grant knowledge of whether or not it is "conscious"