Scaled up and spread out - this probably gets you pretty close to consciousness(?)
Conway's game of life, but instead of colored squares with rules, they're LLM's with some kind of weighting - all chattering back and forth with one another - bubbling up somehow to cause speach/action
Decades ago I read The Society of Mind by Marvin Minsky. He pushed this sort of idea, that consciousness is composed of individual, competing processes. Worth a revisit!
Conway's game of life, but instead of colored squares with rules, they're LLM's with some kind of weighting - all chattering back and forth with one another - bubbling up somehow to cause speach/action