Science is really the only objective system of truth. The origin of consciousness is at present beyond scientific understanding or any pathway towards understanding.

Unfortunately, that means that your question is unanswerable. There is no objectively true answer to this question. Any possible response would be speculation or belief.

This only seems to support the theory

Where I grew up, we called them “luxury bones”

OpenAI programmed ChatGPT-4o to rank risks from “requests dealing with Suicide” below requests, for example, for copyrighted materials, which are always denied. Instead it only marked those troubling chats as necessary to “take extra care” and “try” to prevent harm, the lawsuit alleged.

What world are we living in?