alt Hacker News> They're not thinking, it's doing math, mathematical transformations of data
Whatever thinking fundamentally is, it also has an equivalence as a mathematical transformation of data. You're assuming the conclusion by saying that the two mathematical transformations of data are not isomorphic.
A simulation of information processing is still information processing, just like running Windows in a QEMU VM is still running Windows.
> Whatever thinking fundamentally is, it also has an equivalence as a mathematical transformation of data.
Do not confuse the mathematical description of physical processes as the world being made of math.
> You're assuming the conclusion by saying that the two mathematical transformations of data are not isomorphic.
Correct. They're not isomorphic. One is simple math that runs on electrified sand, and one is an unknown process that developed independently across a billion years. Nothing we're doing with AI today is even close to real thought. There are a billion trivial proofs that make the rounds as memes, like one R in strawberry, or being unable to count, etc.