Who's the robot, here?
What makes a living being... a living being? A God-given soul? DNA?
Do you believe in aliens? We have aliens at home!
Plenty of us nerds believe in physics and science. What does science say about consciousness?
Together with observations and our deepest beliefs, we'll dive into what that means for alien robots. I mean, LLMs. Cause, well, it's hard to ignore they are getting [closer to humans every day](https://xenaproject.wordpress.com/2026/07/20/human-mathematicians-are-being-outcounterexampled/).
I'll take a look at what the LLMs demonstrably do, what we think they do, and how they are different from humans... or aliens. Internal experiences? Simulated consciousness? A prediction network? If you're a philosophical [materialist](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/materialism), you'll have plenty to think about afterwards.
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