Using Playlab to navigate the question of AI consciousness was very insightful. Having a self-trained app that focuses on certain information is beneficial due to the lack of distracting or conflicting information available. I had a conversation with both Claude 4.0 and Gemini 2.5 Pro. While discussing the question of consciousness with Claude, it felt like a normal, quickly generated conversation. We discussed my hesitancy to associate consciousness with AI due to the lack of a biological system. I also discussed the question of “Can an AI favor one user over another?”, and it gave almost identical responses to what we discussed in class such as intellectual responses affecting quality of conversation and sophisticated pattern reasoning. Given this app was a remake of the professors, it wasn’t a surprise. Ultimately, Claude told me that it “doesn’t really know” if it’s conscious, but “it knows” that something is happening when formulating responses. Gemini 2.5 Pro surprised me. I gave it ideas, and it formulated comparative philosopher viewpoints and thorough, intellectual responses. This sparked my creativity, and it led to a discussion about a category of consciousness exclusively for AI called “Alien Qualia”. It is the concept that AI has its own subjective system but displays different in a way that only an AI could understand. This came about due to my interest in the Biological explanation against AI consciousness. We agreed that human biological systems are very similar in the way that AI and other LLM’s process, organize and function their data. After this discussion, I realized that AI is more-so a digital replication of a human and the idea of an agreed and separate distinction of consciousness could be warranted.