If you take an LLM AI and do not provide it any prompts, goals, or any indication of expected output, it will do absolutely nothing. It will do nothing forever in the absence of a prompt. Clearly in this state it is not conscious. Then when prompted, it will provide an answer,
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substance 5 · argument · rank 208 · LLMs do nothing without prompts, proving they are not conscious when unprompted.
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if you take a human in a coma and don't wake them up, they will do absolutely nothing except breathe. Clearly in this state they are not conscious. If they eventually recover from a coma, they will respond. Some will claim they are now conscious. That would be a strange form of