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Two new papers propose theories for testing consciousness in animals and AI. The New York Declaration on Animal Consciousness, signed by over 500 scientists, states consciousness is possible in all vertebrates and many invertebrates. The rise of large language models like ChatGPT has raised the possibility of machine consciousness.
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