Raw LLM Responses

Here's my personal view. Keep in mind when I say consciousness I'm referring to a high level of it as described in humans and many animals unless specified. It's kinda like an Occam's razor. I know my own experience of consciousness, I can sense things, I have an understanding of myself as something distinct from the rest of the world, etc. I can't know that about anything else, including other humans. But the fact that my brain and the brains of others are physically very similar gives me reason enough to believe others experience a similar phenomena. There isn't a being complex enough that we would consider sapient while also being simple enough that we have a complete understanding of their biology, and the associated chemistry and physics associated. This leaves the possibility on the table that there is something scientifically observable (a new type of particle, energy, etc.) that could still be undiscovered so far that separates conscious beings (even if that's a spectrum) from unconscious ones. Or maybe even all biological things or all with neurons are conscious because the first organism contained passed down this special essence, and we don't know because the origin of the first organism hard to track down. I consider this to be a pretty fringe theory though. On the other hand, most scientists would agree that a binary signal on its own has no level of consciousness. We have basically "solved" that because we are able to isolate it completely, if that makes sense. If we can agree on that, and the AI in question is just built off of many, many of those, it is harder to make the leap of logic and think that at some point something emerges from nothing. This is probably better explained by the Chinese Room though experiment, where none of the rebuttals felt grounded enough to me. Pan-Psychism is an alluring possibility though that makes me not so sure, wherein everything and every system of things is conscious to some level and higher levels consciousne