These discussions remind me an awful lot of discussions between my religios and my atheist and my agnostic friends.
Reglious friend: Well there must be a god, I can feel him, and how else would all this marvellous reality around us have come to existence?
Atheist friend: How can you claim that? Where is the evidence? There could be many other explanations, we just don't know, and because of that it doesn't make sense to postulate the existence of a god. And besides, it's just a marketing stunt of the powerful to stay in power.
Agnostic friend: Why does any of this matter? Nature is beautiful, sometimes cruel, I'm glad I'm alive, and whether there is a god or not, I don't know or really care, it's insubstantial to my life.
That's exactly how the discussions around LLM consciousness or intelligence or sentience always go if you put enough tech folks into the conversation.
Reglious friend: Well there must be a god, I can feel him, and how else would all this marvellous reality around us have come to existence?
Atheist friend: How can you claim that? Where is the evidence? There could be many other explanations, we just don't know, and because of that it doesn't make sense to postulate the existence of a god. And besides, it's just a marketing stunt of the powerful to stay in power.
Agnostic friend: Why does any of this matter? Nature is beautiful, sometimes cruel, I'm glad I'm alive, and whether there is a god or not, I don't know or really care, it's insubstantial to my life.
That's exactly how the discussions around LLM consciousness or intelligence or sentience always go if you put enough tech folks into the conversation.