the thing that really gets me is that even if the computational theory of mind holds, LLMs still dont constitute a cognitive agent. cognition and consciousness as a form of computation does not mean that all computation is necessarily a form of cognition and consciousness. its so painful. its substitution of signs of the real for the real; a symptom of consciousness in the form of writing has been reinterpreted to mean consciousness insofar as it forms a cohesive writing system. The model of writing has come to stand in for a mind that is writing, even if that model is nothing more than an ungrounded system of sign-interpretation that only gains meaning when it is mapped by conscious agents back into the real. It is neither self-reflective nor phenomenal. Screaming and pissing and shitting myself everytime someone anthropomorphizes an LLM