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The case for thinking of yourself as a meat-based language model

Mark Frauenfelder
May 05, 2026
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Image: Boar’s Head meat; NYC Neo / shutterstock.com

Are humans just LLMs in meat suits? Arturo Nereu doesn’t quite think so, but in a recent essay, he lays out the uncomfortable parallels between how large language models work and how he experiences his own thinking. The more he interacts with AI tools for research and development, the more he notices th…

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