Your mind must work differently than mine. I have programmed for 20 years, I have a PhD in astrophysics.. And my "reasoning" is pretty much like a long ChatGPT

Your mind must work differently than mine. I have programmed for 20 years, I have a PhD in astrophysics.. And my "reasoning" is pretty much like a long ChatGPT verbal and sometimes not-so-verbal (visual) conversation with myself. If my mind really did abstract platonic thinking I think answers to hard problems would just instantly appear to me, without flaws. But only problems I hve solved before and can pattern match do that. And if I have to think any new thoughts I feel that process is rather similar to how LLMs work. It is the same for history of science really -- only thoughts that build small steps on previous thoughts and participate in a conversation actually are thought by humans. Totally new leaps, which a "platonic thinking machines" should easily do, do not seem to happen.. Humans are, IMO, conversation machines too...