To me, and I've said this elsewhere but been down voted.

What chatgpt3 exposures for me is how we are pattern recognition engines.

We have been trained on a vast data set of every single moment in our lives.

So for me the question isn't is chatgpt3 conscious or sentient, it's why do we think we are ...

Is it possible that there is an experience to be had that is like being chatgpt3 - clearly there's no visual field, or audio, or touch or proprioception ... but is what happens when our minds get lost in reading a book necessarily an order of consciousness above what chatgpt3 experiences when prompted?

I'm not sure that the answer is a definitive yes.

And the answer is going to get less and less definitive the more memory and processing and multimodal inputs we give these systems.