A Disproof of Large Language Model Consciousness: The Necessity of Continual Learning for Consciousness — mentioned by yubblegum

Tue, 06 Oct 2026 01:20:22 GMT

Well, what do you know. My friendly LLM agent pointed out my line of thinking has been formalized: https://arxiv.org/html/2512.12802v1 From the abstract: The requirements for a falsifiable and non-trivial theory of consciousness significantly constrain such theories. Specifically, recent research on the Unfolding Argument and the Substitution Argument has given us formal tools to analyze requirements for a theory of consciousness. I show via a new Proximity Argument that these requirements especially constrain the potential consciousness of contemporary Large Language Models (LLMs) because of…

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A Disproof of Large Language Model Consciousness: The Necessity of Continual Learning for Consciousness — HN submission

Fri, 16 Jan 2026 17:25:23 GMT

Disproof of Large Language Model Consciousness

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A Disproof of Large Language Model Consciousness: The Necessity of Continual Learning for Consciousness — mentioned by yubblegum

A Disproof of Large Language Model Consciousness: The Necessity of Continual Learning for Consciousness — HN submission