"Brains aren't next-token predictors": the counterpoint in an LLM-vs-brain debate
10001plateaus · x · 2026-09-26
@10001plateaus pushes back on framing human brains as next-token predictors: brains can think out of sequential order and have different mechanisms for choosing what to say. Aaroth replies that this is merely a syntactic fact about probability distributions and says nothing about whether brains function like LLMs internally.
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