A OS stores "memories" but nobody argues whether the OS fondly recalls the day their son was born.

When people are debating how the LLM works and you call what the LLM does "thought" it's perfectly reasonable to conclude you believe the human brain works essentially the same as an LLM.

I just asked ChatGPT 4.0 and here's my question and the response, in the interest of full disclosure I edited out the part that I thought wasn't relevant so as not to bore:

"...if I call your processes "thoughts" is that the correct term? If not what term should I use?"

"If you want to describe the processes of an AI language model like me, it's more accurate to use terms such as "information processing," "pattern recognition," or "data-driven predictions." While these terms don't fully capture the complexity of the underlying algorithms, they are more appropriate than "thoughts," which implies consciousness and self-awareness that AI models like me do not possess.

Using the term "thoughts" might be misleading, as it could imply that the AI has a subjective experience or a sense of understanding, which is not the case. Instead, I rely on advanced algorithms to generate responses based on the patterns and associations learned from the data during my training."

So ChatGPT doesn't state you used the correct term.

I genuinely wonder if you think ChatGPT is consciouss and self-aware and you used a word that implied that intentionally, or if you just like how the word "thought" sounds and are indifferent to what people think you are implying.