Sure, because we understand cake, and we can construct one from scratch. We know what makes cake cake, we don’t know what makes something conscious.

To be clear, I absolutely believe LLMs do not have consciousness. They are statistical prediction machines.

But then, animals are also just really complex chemical processes. I don’t know what the differentiating factor is.

Ah yes, the Paula Deen school of filesystems

If we don’t understand it, how can we say whether something is or or not consciousness?

So right now we’re at net zero?