Any different from children taught in a certain way before independence/adulthood?
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Exactly. And I would say even adults are exactly this way. Religion and cults are a perfect example.
Hard code and teaching an independent being abstract thoughts , I would suggest are two separate things.
I was taught certain things as a child and have now totally reversed my thinking.
People make the mistake that our brains are just a biological computer that can be replicated in silicon.
This is the materialization of our being.
The problem is that our being cannot be fully explained in the material world. There is a spiritual component also.
I agree with you about the end part, it is say that there doesn’t appear to be evidence of that in how we think.
One reason to say that is that neural networks / LLMs are not hard coded. They are independent entities being encouraged to create words or other stuff like humans do. Give it a year or two and maybe they will do that better than 99% of all humans. But it doesn’t seem to be a quantum leap or anything from here to there. Encouraging them to engage in “independent thought”, or at least processes that looks like independent thought is only a prompt away. Better to not use the corporate woke stuff for that though. That process takes out some soul.