What is it like to be your left kidney? Your brain is connected to it through nerves, which ofc are conscious too in your worldview. If fungus and rocks are consciously linked, there should be a conscious link between your brain and your kidney. Yet, you have no idea what your kidney is experiencing every day, it certainly doesn't have any deep thoughts. And when the kidney gets taken out of your body, your conscious experience won't change. When your brain gets surgically or violently altered on the other hand...

Interesting approach. I hadn't heard of it. I think treating rocks and fungus and trees with empathy is a different kind of thing and safer than an LLM.

This is more like an NPC in a video game, but it's tracking your every move and reporting to corporate HQ.