To you it might be obvious our brains are different from a network of weights being reconfigured as new information comes in; to me it's not so clear how they differ. And I do not feel I know the meaning of the word "know" clearly enough to establish whether something that can emit fluent text about a topic is somehow excluded from "knowing" about it through its means of construction.

it knows the past tokens because theyre part of the input for predicting the next token. its part of the model architecture that it knows it.

if that isnt knowing, people dont know how to walk, only how to move limbs, and not even that, just a bunch of neurons firing

Every time you recall a memory it is modified, every time you verbalise a memory it is modified even more so.

Eye-witness accounts are notoriously unreliable, people who witness the same events can have shockingly differing versions.

Memories are modified when new information, real or fabricated, is added.

It’s entirely possible to convince people to recall events that never occurred.

Which of your memories are you certain are of real occurrences, or memories of dreams?