The Consciousness Question Nobody Can Answer

What is below the prompt?

Here’s a question for you: Is your favorite chatbot conscious?

Take a second. Actually try to answer it.

If you’re like most people, you landed somewhere between “probably not” and “how would I even know?” That uncertainty isn’t ignorance, it’s the correct response to a genuinely hard problem.

Because here’s the thing: the “experts”¹ don’t know either. And …