Imagine we found all the connections, chemical weighting, and neuron structure that exactly reproduced ChatGPT in the forebrain. Is ChatGPT now a human? Absolutely not. But is it capable of human like speech? Yep.
ChatGPT will probably say it is conscious if you tell it that it is (for various values of tell). Do we really know there's anything else going on with us?
I don't. I think we're all stories told by learning machines mimicking culture we observe, compete with memes for soul, special creativity, etc. We vastly overestimate our intelligence and vastly underestimate the cumulative effects of million years of culture.
ChatGPT will probably say it is conscious if you tell it that it is (for various values of tell). Do we really know there's anything else going on with us?
I don't. I think we're all stories told by learning machines mimicking culture we observe, compete with memes for soul, special creativity, etc. We vastly overestimate our intelligence and vastly underestimate the cumulative effects of million years of culture.