Comment by anonymous908213

There is no need to involve souls or magic. I am not making the argument that it is impossible to create a machine that is capable of doing the same computations as the brain. The argument is that whether or not such a machine is possible, an LLM is not such a machine. If you'd like to think of our brains as squishy computers, then the principle is simple: we run code that is more complex than a token prediction engine. The fact that our code is more complex than a token prediction engine is easily verified by our capability to address problems that a token prediction engine cannot. This is because our brain-code is capable of reasoning from deterministic logical principles rather than only probabilities. We also likely have something akin to token prediction code, but that is not the only thing our brain is programmed to do, whereas it is the only thing LLMs are programmed to do.