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Nothing to do with it? You certainly don’t mean that. The software running an LLM is causally involved.

Perhaps you can explain your point in a different way?

Related: would you claim that the physics of neurons has nothing to do with human intelligence? Certainly not.

You might be hinting at something else: perhaps different levels of explanation and/or prediction. These topics are covered extensively by many thinkers.

Such levels of explanation are constructs used by agents to make sense of phenomena. These explanations are not causal; they are interpretative.

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