The problem with these people saying "this is just applied statistics" or "all it does is predict the next word," etc, is that it's exceedingly likely that our

The problem with these people saying "this is just applied statistics" or "all it does is predict the next word," etc, is that it's exceedingly likely that our own intelligence is also just a series of emergent phenomenon built off of deceptively simple mechanisms. Saying humans aren't conscious because we're just a series of cooperating single celled organisms printing proteins from 4 base pairs won't get you very far. Team Cellular Automata/Look at all the crazy emergent properties of certain platforms, will be more and more correct as time goes on.