[doctor_eval]

It’s also possible that translating a coherent thought into words is done on a token by token basis.

I’m surely not the only one who sometimes can’t “find the right word” in the middle of a sentence when trying to describe a thought or idea.

[RhodesianHunter]

Right, but that would still be functionally quite different from what an LLM does, given that it has no full thought and is entirely predictive by token.