2.**Can knowledge of the set of transitions that caused reaching its present state be considered as artificial consciousness?**

ChatGPT:

No, knowledge of the set of transitions that caused an FSA to reach its present state cannot be considered as artificial consciousness. Artificial consciousness refers to the theoretical concept of a machine or AI system possessing subjective experiences, awareness, self-awareness, or a sense of "being" similar to human consciousness.

The consciousness requirements posed by ChatGPT possibly derive from texts written by people erroneously expecting all these anthropomorphic properties that are inconceivable for a computer system using a general-purpose computer of current technology. These digital computers rely on very simple hardware, the so-called central processing unit (CPU).

No such properties could be attributed to a CPU, which is just an arithmetic processor augmented with a testing facility of the results of the calculations that control the execution flow of a program and some input-output facilities. A CPU can easily be described by an FSA.
