function add(x): return x + 1; end.
An LLM has a bit of randomness to its calculations but that does not change the fact that function add_random(x): return x + rand(1, 10); end
is also just math. No personality. There's nobody home. After the function ends there is no residue.An LLM does a lot of calculations but that doesn't change how it works.
And yet humans, made of such particles, are!
So it seems like reductionism doesn't work here.
But, in the same way that one particle not being conscious doesn't necessarily mean some configurations of many particles- like humans- aren't, one logic gate not being conscious doesn't mean there can't exist configurations of many logic gates that are.