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I can't prove it, it's not scientific, and it's purely me talking out of my ass, but I firmly believe that emotions are part of consciousness.
As in:
You cannot have a self aware sentience without some form of emotion.
Emotions are different levels of chemical signals acting on a system. They’re not particularly special in that a sufficiently complex artificial system could model their effects like any other input. LLMs are not anywhere near that though.