gm, so llms mimic human consciousness by acting almost like it (i'd say almost inperceivably accurate)

now, there is a research paper that proves that llms work better if we use emotional words in prompts

what if that human thing called "feelings" and "empathy" is just an artifact of an llm we use internally?

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so feelings are not a feature of consciousness that makes us human but a property of a tool that we use to organize knowledge like llms

which opens up a whole range of questions if true

can unconscious beings feel?

are feelings somehow inherent to how universe is structured?

what are feelings if they are "unalive"?

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lost the link, can't find it with quick google search

it might as well be inherent to humans and not the universe due to the fact that llms are trained on human data, you're right

probably there is a way to test this but i'm too lazy to think of it :)

emotions being inherent to universe is still a possibility

Can you link to the research paper? Prima facie, it’s not surprising considering that LLMs are trained on texts written by humans, and humans often express themselves using emotionally-loaded words/tokens.

I think that's probably right. There's lots of literature about the evolution of emotions/feelings in humans and the benefit to social formation, trust building and collaboration. Will see what I can dig up.