Note by @fastfinge

@munin Sure, you can talk to someone who's extremely high or has dementia. That doesn't mean they currently have access to intelligence. That's the one thing that LLMs have successfully proven: just because it can talk with correct syntax does not mean it thinks. And of course you can have more than one self. Each self is an intelligence of its own. But to have intelligence, you do need at least one self, and that self needs the ability to process experience, and that processing requires something like language. If you don't have all three, what you have is not intelligence: it's a Parler trick (like LLMS that have only language), death (if you have no concept of self), or...I can't even think what a self-awareness with language and a sense of self but no ability to experience would be. Forming an idea of self requires experience, so I just don't think that's a possible thing.