[coldtea]

>Randomness is certainly an option

Were would that randomness come from? Which would be the source of that in the universe, for it to occur in the mind?

If you mean pseudo-randomness, sure, LLMs employ that too.

>Ignoring information is an option.

Randomly ignoring information? If so, see above. If you mean intended informed ignoring of information, that's still determined on all the previous inputs.

[RandomLensman]

Quantum mechanics provide for randomness (e.g., radioactive decay) - why wouldn't microscopic randomness occur in the brain or be used by a human in a machine?

A universal function approximator isn't enough to access all of nature.