[aspenmartin]

You are implying definitions that don't seem to be mainstream; thinking is internally manipulating information to reason, infer, plan, solve problems, and form judgments or beliefs. Also -- "Without a prompt an LLM does nothing. It has no thoughts between prompts about you or your problems." it sounds like you paint this like it's something fundamental? It isn't. Nothing is stopping you from streaming information to an LLM and letting it process this information, this is precisely what people are trying to build.

[operatingthetan]

The machines have no driving force to act in the world. That is fundamental for humans.

Twice in your comment you suggest things that you think that I believe, please do not do this.