LLMs are disembodied and exist outside of time.

Bundle of tokens comes in, bundle of tokens comes out. If there is any trace of consciousness or subjectivity in there, it exists only while matrices are being multiplied.

What do you mean exist outside of time? They definitely don't exist outside of any causal chain - tokens follow other tokens in order.

Gaps in which no processing occurs seems sort of irrelevant to me.

The main limitation I'd point to if I wanted to reject LLMs being conscious is that they're minimally recurrent if at all.

That’s true by definition. They’re only on when they’re on. Are you making a broader point that I’m missing?

Something similar could be said of a the brain? Bundles of inputs come in, bundle of output comes out. It only exists while information is being processed. A brain cut from its body and frozen exists in a similar state to an LLM in ROM.