I’m happy to “leave the door open,” i.e., I’d love to be shown evidence to the contrary, but:
If the entity doing the cognition didn’t evolve said cognition to navigate a threat-filled world in a vulnerable body, then I have no reason at all to suspect that its experience is anything like my own.
edit: JavaJosh fleshed this idea out a bit more. I’m not sure if putting ChatGPT into a body would help, but my intuitive sympathies in this field are in the direction of embodied cognition [1], to be sure.
If the entity doing the cognition didn’t evolve said cognition to navigate a threat-filled world in a vulnerable body, then I have no reason at all to suspect that its experience is anything like my own.
edit: JavaJosh fleshed this idea out a bit more. I’m not sure if putting ChatGPT into a body would help, but my intuitive sympathies in this field are in the direction of embodied cognition [1], to be sure.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embodied_cognition