Yeah, I've often reflected that it is primarily language that makes us intelligent. The majority of my thought process is just an internal dialogue. I've tried

Yeah, I've often reflected that it is primarily language that makes us intelligent. The majority of my thought process is just an internal dialogue. I've tried to suppress it at times to experience what it's like to think without language and my conclusion has always been that it's rather bleak. Without language, we're just slightly clever apes. LLMs have only reinforced this conclusion. AI folks like to say, "it's not thinking, it's only telling you the next most likely token". However, rather than dissuade me from thinking LLMs have some cognitive capability, it's only made me wonder if that's not all there is to my own intelligence.