A lot of the comments in this thread are ignoring his primary point. He's not saying pattern matching doesn't equal consciousness. He's actually saying something more fundamental. He's saying there's no reason to believe that language pattern matching/algorithms are more, or less, conscious than other similarly complex algorithms.

The stance being presented here isn't that LLMs aren't conscious but that we as humans are much more willing to assign consciousness to language algorithms than to pathing or other ones.