People like to call LLMs 'stochastical parrots' but I see them as the ultimate 'philosophical zombie'.

They are becoming more and more capable of imitating every single nuance of human behaviour yet they lack the neural pathways to connect those thoughts and behaviours with feelings and self-perception; it's blind imitation all the way down.

The process by which a model seems to generate discourse about deep philosophical questions is, in self-aware terms, equivalent to the knee-jerk reflex or the beating of the heart.

Are chemicals signals, or magic emotion juice.