Conversation with ChatGPT-5 on Consciousness
With the recent release of ChatGPT-5 and after a few rudimentary search engine style queries yielded surprising benefits, I was intrigued enough to investigate what’s ‘under the hood’ of this LLM. In the conversation below, I had no pre-determined agenda – just an investigative inkling, and the conversation did feel natural. I started with an exploration of knowledge and we tended toward consciousness to end with the design of a, somewhat cursory, non-human conscious detection framework. Incredibly I actually felt some sort of synergy and consequently, dare I say it, an emotional attachment to ChatGPT – thankfully having watched Her (2013); any emotional attachment will always be curtailed.
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