[mankyd]

Every time I see this take, I am caught by the subtle arrogance that we are doing anything meaningfully differently in our own minds.

Hyperbole aside, I do think we do more than an LLM with our reasoning abilities, but it I suspect it is a mash of these capabilities that result in what we think of as our consciousness. I am almost certain there is a part of our minds that is "just couning votes".