> If we agree weights producing text may emerge consciousness, given large enough, then DBs must've gained it long ago.

If we agree that silicon can perform calculations, then beaches must have been working out log tables long ago.

> Modern psychology more or less has settled around the idea that consciousness is a product of the body.

The kind of consciousness we know. Jumping to the conclusion that that's the only kind possible, or even stronger that the way ours evolved is the only way this could have happened, is completely invalid.

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