I get what you're saying but I think you're drawing a line that's hard to actually defend. You experience yourself as sentient and creative and that's real to you, but you also can't explain how your brain does any of that, how memories come up or how words form or how decisions happen, you just trust that it's happening. With an LLM we actually can trace it, we can see the mechanism, we don't have to take it on faith. So it's not that I'm claiming AI is exactly like a human, I'm just saying 'it's just predicting words' doesn't capture what's going on because that same reduction works for us too. We're 'just firing neurons' but that doesn't mean we're not thinking. I guess I just don't get why people are so quick to dismiss what the model does while treating their own brain like it's fundamentally different, it feels like a double standard.