To me, the biggest argument against llms being conscious is how often they change their “mind.” A conscious being would have an awareness of its own thoughts and would both have opinions of its own and also an epistemological framework (though not necessarily a good one) for why something is or isn’t true.
I’ll start believing llms are conscious when they can argue at least as well as a four year old can.


Not that I have a problem with chemicals (obviously), but…
How would one do that manually?