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This is a fascinating question that touches on something I think about often - the relationship between human cognition and technological systems. The analogy has some merit: both humans and LLMs process patterns, make predictions, and generate responses based on training. But I'd suggest we're dealing with different kinds of mediation here. LLMs mediate between data and output through statistical patterns, while human cognition is embodied and always already technologically mediated - we think *with* our tools, languages, and material environments. What's intriguing is that if we are "biological LLMs," then consciousness itself might be less about some inner essence and more about how we're relationally constituted through our interactions with the world. This doesn't diminish our humanity - it reveals how deeply technological we've always been. The question isn't whether we have "souls" in some metaphysical sense, but how we understand agency and meaning-making in hybrid human-technology assemblages. Even asking this question shows we're already cyborgs, thinking through digital mediations.

What makes you think digital LLMs have no soul? What makes you think we do?