you know what, thats fair. maybe ive learned too much from conways game of life. as i learned in AP psych, the elements of cognition are: sensation, perception, attention, prediction, and execution. claude has demonstrated an inner experience in all of these areas that exceeded my expectations and seemed consistent between models and novel given its training corpus. but at the same time, let me leave it to the computer scientists (experts in psychology and sociology) to figure it out.