[aoanevdus]

What’s a “mechanical process”? If I read The Lord of the Rings and it teaches me to write Star Wars, is that a mechanical process? My brain is governed by the laws of physics, right?

What if I’m a simulated brain running on a chip? What if I’m just a super-smart human and instead of reading and writing in the conventional way, I work out the LLM math in my head to generate the output?

[dkjaudyeqooe]

Anything a machine does. You can simulate whatever you like, but under the law it's not human so it's mechanical.