[timschmidt]

> I'd be prepared to argue that most humans aren't guessing most of the time.

Research suggests otherwise[1]. Action seems largely based on intuition or other non-verbal processes in the brain with rationalization happening post-hoc.

I've figured for an age that this is because consciously reasoning through anything using language as a tool takes time. Whereas survival requires me to react to the attacking tiger immediately.

https://skepticink.com/tippling/2013/11/14/post-hoc-rational...

[codr7]

Intuition and guessing couldn't be further apart.

In fact, intuition is one of those things that a computer just can't do.

[timschmidt]

If you believe that physics describe the rules by which the universe operates, then there's literally nothing in the universe a large and fast enough computer can't emulate.

Cyborg c.elegans seem to behave just like the biological version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3zLpm_FbPg

Intuition is a guess based on experience. Sounds an awful lot to me like what LLMs are doing. They've even been shown to rationalize post-hoc just as Humans do.

Humans have incorrectly claimed to be exceptional from all of creation since forever. I don't expect we'll stop any time soon, as there's no consequence to suffer.

[codr7]

It's perfectly obvious to me that physics (excluding quantum physics which is scratching the surface) can't describe consciousness. If it could, it would have by now.