These GPT models aren't sophisticated enough to fully emmulate us, but as a logical mirror and test harness that can reflect pretty much every metaphysical concept we can think up, they may be sufficient.
A mirror is a good metaphor. We don't think that the reality we see in a mirror is animated. So too, for the artificial intelligence.
There may be no difference in appearance, but in reality the difference is vast - so vast as to be beyond compare. There is no meaning in the mirrored-self, the reflection does not thinking or have ideas etc. If you struggle to find which of the 2 (you or the reflection) is the real one, using appearance only you will struggle. But then you can laugh and move on - this is not an issue to concern you, you can dismiss it - you know where the awareness is.
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A mirror is a good metaphor. We don't think that the reality we see in a mirror is animated. So too, for the artificial intelligence.
There may be no difference in appearance, but in reality the difference is vast - so vast as to be beyond compare. There is no meaning in the mirrored-self, the reflection does not thinking or have ideas etc. If you struggle to find which of the 2 (you or the reflection) is the real one, using appearance only you will struggle. But then you can laugh and move on - this is not an issue to concern you, you can dismiss it - you know where the awareness is.