... conscious thought" also counts as experience). An entity doesn't need to be self -aware to be conscious (else e.g. young kids wouldn't be conscious). Consciousness is certainly experienced at very different "levels", it's probably a continuum, and multi-dimensional, or "fractal" as you say. Comment from Konrad S.(@konrad_sx): The poll options have no line breaks, so here in full: Some current LLMs already have some form of consciousness Future LLMs may be conscious (maybe ... ... chrismessina  Not in detail, but I guess your point is that we can make machine-biological-organism hybrids, or also completely synthetic entities that are very similar to biological organisms, and there may be kind of a continuum