'Modern LLMs are more complex than many mammalian brains' sparks researcher spat

kaleidosbob · x · 2026-11-01

The thread's root: davidmanheim argued it's absurd to be confident about consciousness we don't understand, and that modern LLMs are plausibly more complex than many mammalian brains — a claim kaleidosbob forcefully contested with biophysics arguments.

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