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Intelligent but not conscious would still be a few steps ahead of GPT.

We can take a concept and refactor it symbolically. GPT can't do that. All it does is find symbols that are semantically close to other symbols.

I’m not sure that those two processes are as distinct as you believe them to be.

You seem very sure they aren't, yet you have no evidence apart from your own belief that you might be correct.

That's circular reasoning.

Yup.