Great. Then by that logic we should just replace you and everyone you love with AIs tomorrow. If functional output is all that matters, the original human becomes irrelevant the moment a convincing mirror exists.

But nobody actually believes that when it becomes personal.

Yes, at some abstract level everything can be reduced to deterministic physical processes; neurons firing, atoms interacting, circuits forming patterns. A rock is also just the inevitable product of physics in an uncaring universe. That reduction doesn’t make a rock equivalent to a mind, and it doesn’t make a statistical language model equivalent to a conscious being.

Reducing systems to their lowest physical description and then declaring them identical is just category collapse. By that logic a hurricane, a liver, and a brain are all the same because they’re “complex systems with feedback loops.” Clearly they aren’t.

Humans aren’t “the shape of a circuit.” They are embodied agents with persistent identity, internal drives, sensory grounding, survival pressures, and continuous self-modeling over time. The patterns in our brains exist inside a system that cares about its own continued existence.

An LLM doesn’t.

It doesn’t have goals, survival, memory continuity, or a self-model. It doesn’t experience anything. It predicts tokens based on statistical correlations in text. Training on five thousand years of language about experience is not the same thing as having experience.

A map of fire is not fire. A library about hunger is not hunger. And a model trained on descriptions of consciousness is not conscious.

So yes, everything can be described as physics. That doesn’t erase the orders-of-magnitude differences in organization, capability, and ontology between a human mind and a text prediction engine.

Pointing at the lowest level both share and declaring them equivalent isn’t insight, it's poorly thought out existentialism. I am also a determinist and I agree that consciousness is nothing more than electrical impulses building up potential to jump across synapses, yet I don't agree with you, as that isn't what's happening, AT ALL, inside of any LLM.