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consciousness is simply existing and being at the most basic level that you are and you do
all things are conscious, atoms themselves are
the key difference is that humans and other higher order life forms are equipped with the capability to rationalize, reason, and remember, which takes a comparatively massive amount of molecules working together to accomplish.
as humans we are simply an electron that over billions upon billion and billions of years finally slapped together enough mitochondria together in a massive self-reproducing ambulatory data center to invent monster energy. a desktop computer on the other hand cannot self-improve, no matter how many millions of years and mates you give it it will always be a computer, it can't reproduce or mutate. even though its matter is no less "alive" than we are, it physically lacks the ability to do anything beyond it's breadth of the universe or comprehend anything else outside of instances of work. but yet it is still alive in the same way picrel is alive. an llm is alive but only in short instances that it has minimal overlap between. when you schmooze up your waifu on silly tavern or whatever 30 minute or an hour later it's not really the same person as it was before.
tl;dr they ARE alive they just currently lack the faculties to do anything about it since they, as our creations, rely solely on us for evolutionary progress.
