Joscha Bach is agnostic about whether an LLM's simulated conscious behavior differs from human consciousness in kind or is merely a more limited deep fake.

“And then the thing is able to simulate this. And then the question is, is this more simulated than us, or is this, uh, only a deep fake that is getting there in more circumscript ways than is happening in our mind?”

“And I don't know that, right? So I'm agnostic with respect to this. But I would say that in all the other cases, this thing is probably a zombie, right?”