@thomasfuchs That's part of it but I've heard it from people who really should know better, people who at least have some technical understanding of how LLMs work.
I've had people tell me with a straight face that all *our* brains do is match patterns, and it kinda baffles me how somebody could fail so badly to understand their own thought processes. (Let alone, y'know, various autonomic processes that are entirely separate from conscious thought.)