[PaulStatezny]

Both of those terms have precise meanings. They're not the same thing. Summarized --

Cognition: acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought and the senses.

Hallucination: An experience involving the perception of something not present.

With those definitions in mind, hallucination can be defined as false-cognition that is not based in reality. It's not cognition because cognition grants knowledge based on truth and hallucination leads the subject to believe lies.

In other words, "humans are just really good at hallucination" rejects the notion that we're able to perceive actual reality with our senses.

[ahepp]

I mean hallucination in the context of this conversation: probabilistic token generation without any real knowledge or understanding.

Maybe if we add a lot of neurons and make it all faster, we would end up with “knowledge” as an emergent feature? Or maybe we wouldn’t.