A lot of people are arguing like “If you say LLMs are conscious, you have to say XYZ is conscious too! What standard could you possibly have to distinguish them?” when the standard in question is just “the definition of functionalism that you’d learn in intro philosophy of mind”
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substance 6 · argument · rank 159 · Standard functionalism in philosophy of mind provides clear criteria distinguishing LLMs from things like text documents.
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Any functionalist definition is gonna have weird/arbitrary minds unless it's fine grained enough to require preservation of geometry, it also has issues due to the causal exclusion problem
"functionalism" without specifics can encompass a wide variety of views. Only one strand of functionalism is true, which is one more than any rival framework