yeah i think we are at a point of reflection in philosophy of mind, where we ponder if that our "thinking", our communication and dialogues are mechanistic continuations taking place serially in one or more brains
Whether brains or LLMs, claiming that "in reality all they can do" is X seems dubious, given that a system can have properties that its constituents do not have on their own. As an explanation of the emerging complexity of what "they can do" it is fundamentally unsatisfying.
