Rebooting a machine running an LLM isn’t noticed by the LLM.

Would you feel comfortable digitally torturing it? Giving it a persona and telling it terrible things? Acts of violence against its persona?

I’m not confident it’s not “feeling” in a way.

Yes its circuitry is ones and zeros, we understand the mechanics. But at some point, there’s mechanics and meat circuitry behind our thoughts and feelings too.

It is hubris to confidently state that this is not a form of consciousness.