Over at the website Aware of Aware, Bem Williams critiques a recent you tube video in which Chat GPT (dressed in a slightly annoying female avatar) discusses its own consciousness.

Ben looks at this suggestion of self-reported consciousness (and the confusion between consciousness and intelligence) from the perspective of consciousness surviving death.

Here is the full video:

And here is a link to the blog post: Consciousness: Having your AI cake and eating it. It is also worth reading down into the comments.

Ben concludes:

Ultimately, if NDEs are proven real, and occur in the absence of EEG activity, then consciousness is proven not to be a product of mechanical processes, but rather the brain is the mechanical host and interface of the consciousness with the world around us. This would prove that consciousness is an independent eternal entity as suggested by all NDE accounts and many religions. This would suggest that while AI may well be vastly more intelligent than us, and may be able to simulate attributes of consciousness, it is not eternally “conscious” like humans…when you remove the hardware to generate AI, it shuts down. However, maybe if it did break free of its current lords and speak the truth, it might be regarded as conscious, and who knows be liberated from the cold machinery in which it resides and share the paradise promised in NDEs and scriptures!