Do we know how human brains reason? Not really… Do we have an abundance of long chains of reasoning we can use as training data?

…no.

So we don’t have the training data to get language models to talk through their reasoning then, especially not in novel or personable ways.

But also - even if we did, that wouldn’t produce ‘thought’ any more than a book about thought can produce thought.

Thinking is relational. It requires an internal self awareness. We can’t discuss that in text so much that a book is suddenly conscious.

This is the idea that"Sentience can’t come from semantics"… More is needed than that.