Yes, thinking involves signals firing in your brain. But, not just any signals. Fire the wrong signals and someone’s having a seizure not thinking.
Just because LLMs generate words doesn’t mean they’re thinking. Thinking involves reasoning and considering something. It involves processing information, storing memories, then bringing them up later as appropriate. We know LLMs aren’t doing that because we know what they are doing, and what they’re doing is simply generating the next word based on previous words.
People who are like this should really try to train their hearing better. You miss so much about the composition of a shot when you’re reading subtitles.
Imagine if every painting in an art museum had a QR code pasted on top of it, or if every scenic overlook had glass you had to look through that had text explaining what it was you were looking at.