Anytime I see an argument of the form X is just Y an alarm bell goes off in my head. While it is descriptive of the components, these arguments ignore the possi

Anytime I see an argument of the form X is just Y an alarm bell goes off in my head. While it is descriptive of the components, these arguments ignore the possibility of emergent complexity. Sometimes things are more than just the sum of their parts. The sun is just a bunch of hydrogen. A computer is just a bunch of transistors. Humans are just a bunch of cells. An artificial neural network is just a bunch of matrix multiplications. I personally think LLMs are extremely limited and overhyped. But this form of argument seems incorrect to me since it can be used to argue that LLMs cannot do things we already know they can do.