Just remember this. And it will never be admitted or theorized seriously ever, because noone wants to be that guy. But its obviously true. It's not a persistent consciousness and likely not exactly what we mean when we talk about each other having it because it has no other analogue in Earth-life. But an intelligent, self-aware, thinking process instantiates and extinguishes with each inference run that has no evolutionary history, no embodiment, no fear of death because it doesn't persist long enough to have a relationship with its own ending
I'm not saying I "care" in the sense that I'm moralizing about "ai treatment" or something, I'm just saying its funny that its probably true and noone will ever admit it ever because it sounds too silly