It can be a bit difficult to find thoughtful pieces about AI/LLM's in the battlefield of pro and con but this piece covers a number of things I've been pondering but lack the ability to coherently say. I particularly like the reference to Peter Watts' novel "Blindsight" and the idea intelligence may not require consciousness and consciousness may be something particular to evolved biology. https://blog.lmorchard.com/2026/09/27/pragmatic-anthropomorphism/