The Existence of a Zombie

David Weinberger: Is it possible for something to look entirely conscious from an outside perspective, but not actually be feeling anything like we feel in a phenomenal stream of consciousness? He asks whether any creature that can have perceptions, think, form, memories, direct its attention would necessarily be conscious simply because there's no other way to do all those things without being conscious. In the case of chat GPT and language models like that, barring very few exceptions, there is nobody out there that thinks what it's doing now in version four is anything like our experience of consciousness," he says.