Reddit thread challenges AI consciousness

This is a clean structural objection, but it overreaches when it turns into an absolute impossibility claim.

• –IIT and related theories do make integration and feedback central, so the intuition has real research backing.
• –Autoregressive inference adds feedback across tokens, but the model still rebuilds each state from weights plus text rather than carrying one persistent activation stream.
• –Context windows, vector stores, and agent scaffolding improve memory, but they do not by themselves create a continuously evolving internal state.
• –If artificial consciousness ever shows up, it will likely look more like a recurrent, stateful agent than a vanilla chatbot.