[the_gipsy]

Different LLMs can also come to the same conclusions, that is, predict the same strings of tokens (in the meaning).

Sure, they're a far way from the capacity of humans in terms of short term training. But there is literally nothing that indicates they can't "think" (understand, reason, abstract, whatever word you wanna put in italics) because nobody can explain what it really means, because: it's all just predicting. Text happens to be super useful for us to evaluate certain aspects of predicting.