[librasteve]

i think that we need to subset our definition of “thinking” on lines like

  - contextualising 
  - packaging / assembling
  - parsing
  - recognizing / labeling
  - comparing / contrasting 
  - analyzing / subsetting
  - checking
  - reasoning 
  - introspecting

in my view both human and LLMs perform most of these aspects of thinking in a similar way … I suspect that a large fraction of the human brain performs LLM like language manipulation

for sure, today’s LLMs lack the last two on the list, and there is probably a rational debate to be had whether these can just emerge in the substrate provided by the LLM-like setting or whether the brain provides some hardwired additions to loop around focus selection and perceive-model-decide-act that will need to be grafted on to LLMs to achieve AGI