Re: "does it really matter if it can be described as cognition or not?" To Chomsky? He'd have to speak for himself, but I suspect the answer is "yes, obviously

Re: "does it really matter if it can be described as cognition or not?" To Chomsky? He'd have to speak for himself, but I suspect the answer is "yes, obviously, at least to be of interest to me." Note that I'm not saying LLMs are useless or even that what they do is usefully described as "plagiarism." But it seems entirely unsurprising to me that Chomsky would be unimpressed and uninterested -- even to the point of dismissiveness, he's pretty much like that -- precisely because they are unrelated to "cognition."