I can agree with all of that. I was pushing back against something that might not have been there initially: an unwillingness to accommodate the idea that a fa

I can agree with all of that. I was pushing back against something that might not have been there initially: an unwillingness to accommodate the idea that a fairly significant part of our intelligence is actually stored in our language and that it can seem subjectively (perhaps excluding those with no internal monologue) that we recall that knowledge in a manner which is close enough to the one we have managed to replicate in the larger LLMs. This part of our function could well be a lazy optimization that in reality sits on top of our reasoning capabilities to save energy, but the point of the trite task with the bird in the hand was just to demonstrate that it seems to play a fairly significant role. I'm out of my depth entirely with respect to the actual form and function of the brain as per the state of research today. I'm willing to admit though that when I replied to you I was probably really replying to a lot of other commenters, many of whom had stronger objections to the idea that LLMs are now knocking on the door of intelligence at least to the point where we feel the need to redefine it.