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im not arguing sapience, im examining your definition of sentience, which was self-awareness. my question was how we distinguish between mimicry of a sentient being and actually being sentient, with an analogy that a recording of a sentient being is a perfect mimicry but isn't the same as having sentience.
similarly, how do we know that an llm is self aware and not merely a machine that returns clever combinations of recorded sentient beings? what is the equivalent of a red dot mirror test for an llm?
If the combinations of recorded sentient beings are clever, then the LLM has a sense of self, because the cleverness is not in the recordings, but in how the LLM is using them.