The process of a human responding to a prompt isn't the same process an LLM follows. It involves subjectively experiencing being asked the question, having feel

The process of a human responding to a prompt isn't the same process an LLM follows. It involves subjectively experiencing being asked the question, having feelings about the question, possibly visualizing something related to the question, possibly reflecting on memories, wondering about how possible answers might be received and affect their future reputation, expressing their answer with a range of different emotions, and so on. There may be aspects of the brain that behave like statistical models, but the broader system seems more complex than that. I don't see that as in any way inherently spiritual. I expect that it could be artificially reproduced one way or another, but would be extremely complicated.