I don’t know what consciousness is but I know how it feels. It feels like inner world. And that’s what we expect other people to have when we say they’re conscious. LLMs have no inner world. They are shown a context, they process it to generate a response, they shut down, the response is added to the context. They don’t “remember” the context, it’s fed to them over and over again. No inner world. Perhaps there’s some transient consciousness in the activations in that split second when the context is processed. A ripple of consciousness that fades away with every single response.