#Consciousness as "deliberate #thinking and #cognition" should be easy to explain, but only by the conscious agent itself. There is no way an outside #oserver can identify if an agent's behavior is conscious or not.

>#Intuition — what seems “#obvious and #undeniable” — may **not** be #trustworthy. It may seem “obvious and undeniable” to someone interacting with ChatGPT that it is communicating with a conscious agent, but that assumption would be flawed.

https://bigthink.com/the-well/human-consciousness-womb-after-birth/