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> It is missing individual agency and self sufficiency which is a hallmark of consciousness.

You can be completely paralyzed and completely concious.





Yes, but you can't be completely suspended with no sensory input or output, not even internally (i.e. hunger, inner pains, etc), and no desires, and still be conscious.

> no sensory input or output

Multimodal LLMs get input from cameras and text and generate output. They undergo reinforcement learning with some analogy to pain/pleasure and they express desires. I don't think they are conscious but I don't think they necessarily fail these proposed preconditions, unless you meant while they are suspended.


Yes, and you have individual agency while completely paralyzed.

Self sufficiency was one of his conditions.



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