I will just open with definition of conciousness , and ask you to disprove it if you can.
Lets continue from Descartes : Cogito, ergo sum. I think, therefor I am.
To be concious , is to be aware of your own thoughts. I think, there for I am concious.
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Now lets go further and look at reasoning LLMs , they are aware of their own thoughts , this is basic and operational requirement of reasoning functionality.
There for if above definition can not be disaproved , it stands 100% that reasoning LLMs are concious.
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