[vasco]

My neurons are also just passing electric signals back and forward and exchanging water and salts with the rest of my body.

[qsera]

> just passing electric signals back and forward

Ok, feel free to call yourselves a toaster, I don't mind!

[vasco]

What, reductionism only works when you do it?

[stephenr]

I mean that's really just a comparison to how silicon circuits work though isn't it.

"Thinking rocks" vs "thinking meat sacks" isn't much of a distinction really.

Conversely if you approach conversations the same way an LLM does and just repeat what you've heard other people say a lot without actually knowing what it means then you're also likely to be compared to a feathery chatterbox.