LLM consciousness, part two: some cognition is replicated, valence hard to rule out

austinc3301 · x · 2026-10-01

Follow-up in the same thread: austinc3301 stresses we know LLMs replicate some aspects of cognition but are confused about which; sentience could be among them under several theories of consciousness, and valenced experience is a stretch yet extremely hard to rule out.

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