> To evolve consciousness, an LLM would have to be programmed to evolve consciousness, and to do that, we would need to know what consciousness is and how to program it.

Since consciousness only counts when it is formed deliberately rather than accidentally. Though that would mean…

> The rational soul can be made only by creation.

From Aquinas' Summa Theologiae. The argument this article presents does seem very similar. Weirdly, the article itself is very dismissive of religion, while making a similar argument to the one Aquinas made 750 years ago.