Comment by tavavex

Whatever people think consciousness is, I don't think most would agree that LLMs have it. The main point is that the capacity to feel pain is what's central here, not another rehash of the great consciousness debate. I can't define it well enough myself to say if pain and other biological signals must be central to consciousness, I can imagine a hypothetical alien that has its own stimuli and could be seen as conscious, but the point is - consciousness isn't what should be discussed here, I think.