All those behaviors are more simply explained by looking at the original designed behavior: Generate the most likely next word based on the human-sourced language in the training set. There's no understanding in there, no intention, no perception. It sounds like a human because humans said those things before. This is more like a search engine that synthesizes content instead of just locating a page.

To say it has "instinct" of its own is merely begging the question. No, it has echoes of ours.