Connectionists: Can LLMs think?

[Barak A. Pearlmutter]

On Fri, 24 Mar 2023 at 14:31, Paul Cisek <paul.cisek at umontreal.ca> wrote:
> I was not suggesting there is something special about people. In fact, it’s rather the opposite: I think that the similarity between human and animal brains/behaviors strongly suggests that whatever our kind of intelligence involves is actually based on fundamental processes that we share with many animals

The pithy term people use for this idea is the "ratbrain.h
hypothesis", the joke being that if you have a program ratbrain.c and
want to edit it to make it compile to humanbrain instead of ratbrain,
all the changes you need to make are in ratbrain.h: #define
N_CELLS_IN_CORTEX, etc.