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No AI system using the forward inference pass can ever be conscious.

I mean consciousness as in what it is like to be, from the inside. Current AI systems concentrate integration within the forward pass, and the forward pass is a bounded computation. Integration is not incidental. Across neuroscience, measures of large…

LLMs live only in the world of words

They will readily hallucinate that they can do things outside their scope of operations. Because humans have used those action words in token contexts that match the current one enough. They have no internal experience. They can spew words about havin…