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IMO life on earth displays a continuum for us that settles this philosophical debate and we ignore it because the truth hurts. Leaf-cutter ants mindlessly gather leaves, wolves mindlessly hunt deer, and we mindlessly generate text. There is no ghost in the machine. There is only the machine. We are very much stochastic parrots. Meaning is relationship, choosing the correct word cannot be done without it. It’s not a thing on the other side of a mystical threshold. I highly recommend Hofstadter‘s Creative Concepts and Fluid Analogies.