106 - Why GPT and other LLMs (probably) aren't sentient
Philosophical Disquisitions
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The Importance of Introspection
I suspect that my brain just has kind of an automatic way of detecting when it thinks I'm seeing other minds that also have points of view. And so it's reasonable for me to think that the cause of your behavior and movements and speech is roughly what it would be for me. That's maybe baking in some heavy duty metaphysics that a lot of people would reject. But it does seem like through introspection or something like that, I can know that I'm currently seeing a computer screen that you're on and currently hearing your voice and feeling my feet on the ground and so forth.
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