Deanthropomorphising NLP: Can a language model be conscious?

• Matthew Shardlow ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Matthew Shardlow, Piotr Przybyła

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: m.shardlow@mmu.ac.uk

  Affiliation Department of Computing and Mathematics, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1129-2750

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• Piotr Przybyła

  Contributed equally to this work with: Matthew Shardlow, Piotr Przybyła

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations LaSTUS, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain, Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9043-6817

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