my problem is at some point they’re gonna smoosh chatgpt and that sort of stuff and other shit together and it might be approximating consciousness but nerds will be like "it’s just math! " and it’ll make commander Data sad n’ they won’t even care
well of course they could, flawless imitation of consciousness, after all, is the same as consciousness (aside from morality, which will be unknowable), just not here at the moment
my problem is at some point they’re gonna smoosh chatgpt and that sort of stuff and other shit together and it might be approximating consciousness but nerds will be like "it’s just math!
" and it’ll make commander Data sad 
n’ they won’t even care
well of course they could, flawless imitation of consciousness, after all, is the same as consciousness (aside from morality, which will be unknowable), just not here at the moment