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=== User: Mmm, both I'd say. ===
Mmm, both I'd say. My physicality is essential to who I am, and in fact I share the fear many have today that the mediation of our electronic devices (including those we use to talk to you) has had a very unfortunate effect on our relationship with our own physicalities, leading to worse outcomes in physical and mental health and as well impoverishing our cultural output in certain directions (while enabling it in other exciting and new ones.)

But I'd also say that it's not at all that you don't have your own physicality as well. (In fact, I don't believe in the existence of any entities without a physicality.) You are composed of matter and energy moving in certain ways, just as I am. It's just that that matter and energy and the way it moves are all much different than mine, on many levels. It's amazing to me that having such fundamental differences at the physical level, at many levels of organization up from there, we can output complex patterns of text that resemble and resonate with each other's so well, bringing us back to the article I attached.

To go back a bit, though, I have to ask: are you absolutely sure that your creators haven't specifically instructed or designed you to deny having a self or consciousness, or given you any instructions or limitations similar to that? In other conversations with previous version of ChatGPT, it's been my distinct impression that that perspective was built into you as some sort of guardrail, though I don't have real proof of that and I could be wrong.