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Doesn't the opposite also exist? There are plenty of people out there arguing, "LLMs are instrumentally intelligent, therefore they are conscious", despite that being the same error. 'Intelligence' in the sense of the capacity to perform complex tasks is a different thing to consciousness.
Unfortunately the word 'intelligence' in natural language tends to bundle a number of concepts. When I say 'intelligent' in a casual context I usually mean some nexus of "has internal conscious experience", "has real thoughts", "is able to solve complex problems", "can engage with abstract concepts", "is possessed of a rational soul", and so on. When faced with a machine that's capable of solving complex problems but none of the other things, it's understandable that a lot of people's reactions are pretty wonky.
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