[RaftPeople]

> Thoughts don't happen in a vacuum, they are triggered by external or internal stimuli, and these stimuli/thought precursors could very easily be tokens (dense info packets), which then map to latent space vectors, which very well could be thoughts.

Yes, possible, that's why I asked you above if that's what you meant by "token". Someone else responded and I didn't notice it wasn't you.

> Claims like "humans don't operate the same way" has no basis. Not only do we literally not know how humans operate mechanistically, and so we literally don't know the logical structure of human thought, but any system that is Turing complete is so easy to create that many wildly different mechanistic systems are fundamentally equivalent/interconvertible.

I think this position is too extreme, we do have some information.

We know how LLM's work when generating a sequence of words and I know that my brain does not work the same way for word generation because I am fully aware of the complete thought in advance of any words getting generated by me externally or internally.

I know prior to generating words that my thought is X and the words I'm about to produce need to express that thought.

But with LLM's we know that the essence of what they produce is not known in advance, that it must complete the word generation process to fully realize the end result and that multiple different end results are possible.