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That's 100% false, dogs and pigeons can obviously think, and it is childish to suppose that their thoughts are a sequence of woofs or coos. Trying to make an AI that thinks like a human without being able to think like a chimpanzee gives you reasoning LLMs that can spit out proofs in algebraic topology, yet still struggle with out-of-distribution counting problems which frogs and fish can solve.