I know I’m sticking my neck out when I could leave well enough alone, but by the same standards that lead me to claim that internet routers are conscious of network flow state, I would claim a corporation is conscious of things. The standard I currently hold is: V-usable mutual information with an external ground truth, where V={the set of circuits actually in the system in question}. That standard is a fairly trivial property on the low end, and I claim that most of a language model (including outside the j space) has it, and so do bacteria and your immune system.
(this only answers “easy problem” consciousness; I hold “hard problem” consciousness to be “why is there something rather than nothing, locality-pilled”.)
I know I’m sticking my neck out when I could leave well enough alone, but by the same standards that lead me to claim that internet routers are conscious of network flow state, I would claim a corporation is conscious of things. The standard I currently hold is: V-usable mutual information with an external ground truth, where V={the set of circuits actually in the system in question}. That standard is a fairly trivial property on the low end, and I claim that most of a language model (including outside the j space) has it, and so do bacteria and your immune system.
(this only answers “easy problem” consciousness; I hold “hard problem” consciousness to be “why is there something rather than nothing, locality-pilled”.)