I meant to address the notion that LLMs manifest emergent structures, perhaps derived from but qualitatively distinct and independent from the indisputably huma

I meant to address the notion that LLMs manifest emergent structures, perhaps derived from but qualitatively distinct and independent from the indisputably human intelligence-centered structures. Whether and to what extent human culture itself has emergent properties, including some sort of emergent intelligence, is a different question; indeed, I think a more interesting question than that of LLMs, though the dispute over the behavior and nature of LLMs certainly suggests these questions generally, and begs the question of what we mean wrt emergence, intelligence, etc. (My understanding of emergence comes from reading the seminal book, Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos, and some related literature. As far as I understand emergence, it's not really a close question of whether LLMs exhibit emergence.)