Ah ok. But then which processes specifically does it need to replicate?

What if it merely needs to develop priors over key and query vectors and Attention is truly All You Need?

Are axons and dendrites prerequisites for consciousness? Do you need myelin sheaths for a sense of "my"? Or Golgi bodies to contemplate God?

We don’t fully understand the mechanism yet. The larger issue is what abstractly computation is relative to the physical world and physical processes. Molecules of water arrange in such a way that they are wet or frozen. A computer simulating water can be neither wet nor frozen. So to with molecules being conscious.

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