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I think you can confidently say that brains do the following and LLMs don't:

* Continuously updates its state based on sensory data

* Retrieves/gathers information that correlates strongly with historic sensory input

* Is able to associate propositions with specific instances of historic sensory input

* Uses the above two points to verify/validate its belief in said propositions

Describing how memories "feel" may confuse the matter, I agree. But I don't think we should be quick to dismiss the argument.

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But the thing is that humans don't hallucinate as much as LLMs, so it's the differences not similarities (such as they are) that are important to understand why that is.

It's pretty obvious that an LLM not knowing what it does or does not know is a major part of it hallucinating, while humans do generally know the limits of their own knowledge.

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