You're the one claiming that GPT is not in any sense, shape, or form intelligent. Such claim inevitably carries a very strong implication that you know what intelligence is.
One doesn’t have to know how thoughts are formed to have good theories and reasonable hypothesis.
Science makes progress with imperfect information all the time, including incomplete models of neurological phenomenon, intelligence, and consciousness.
Science makes progress with imperfect information all the time, including incomplete models of neurological phenomenon, intelligence, and consciousness.