Comment by Eddy_Viscosity2

I don't dispute what you're saying about how LLMs work, but this is exactly what I mean. LLMs can be shown to demonstrate reasoning, so if define thinking as being able to reason, then LLMs can indeed think. If instead you define thinking as being more than just reasoning, then LLMs cannot think. Neither of these two options change what LLMs do, its just an argument about the best word to describe it.