Language and consciousness

The current SMBC presents a new (and alarmingly persuasive) theory about the origins of consciousness, in order to explain why Large Language Models are not (yet) conscious:

The details of the process:

And only the fit survive:

So we can predict the path to AI consciousnes:

One of the comments:

I get it! When Jaynes wrote about “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”, he’s referring to how sitting in on legislative proceedings is terminally boring, right?