We don't have any way of knowing what makes human consciousness, the best we've got is to just call it an emergent phenomenon, which is as close to a Science version of "God of the Gaps" as you can get.
And you think we can make ChatGPT a real person with good intentions and duct tape?
Really? I figure he'd give one of those patented "I'm sorry... That you're an offended little liberal snowflake who totally sucks!" style apologies and it'd be accepted as if it were genuine.
The answer is that Trump's speech works for the new reason why empty new age platitudes work. Not because they say something interesting, but because they sound like they might.
People aren't hearing Trump speak because he's not saying anything, they're hearing what they want to hear in the word salad.
I literally tried to follow transcripts of Trump talking back in 2016, and I couldn't. They just came off as word salads, unfortunately this is why his base loves him.
It's kinda like those New Age speakers who give a bunch of empty platitudes that could reasonably mean any god damn, if you bite hard enough you'll look for what you want to hear without even realizing it.
Do these people even hear themselves talk?