Nobody is saying that human brains are picnic blankets, so we aren't debating that one. I'll grant you that it's more reasonable to think that what the human br

Nobody is saying that human brains are picnic blankets, so we aren't debating that one. I'll grant you that it's more reasonable to think that what the human brain does resembles being a "stochastic parrot" more than it does a picnic blanket, but I think it's the burden of anyone saying the brain thinks that way, to prove it, and therefore prove that stochastic parrotism is reasoning, as opposed to just alleging this possibility as an affirmative defense But really, why would anyone think that reasoning is stochastic in that way? I never did, and do not now. That hasn't changed just because LLMs demonstrate results that in some cases are equivalent to what could be reasoned.