>Hofstadter generally seems depressed about the possibility that human cognition is not so special or complicated,

Heh, this fits in with my theory that most people won't find LLMs intelligent, instead we'll discover people aren't.

I kind of hate to say it but stuff like that makes me think religions had partly found some important concepts with unconditional belief in forgiveness and such. Otherwise there are perspectives where human existence just don't have much meaning.