Is your Brain a Large Language Model?

What if your thoughts work the same way as a large language model? In this mind-bending conversation, we explore a radical theory: that human language operates just like the engine behind ChatGPT and other LLMs. Drawing from cognitive science, philosophy, and AI, the discussion dives deep into the autogenerative and autoregressive nature of language—how each word we say emerges from the ones before, rewriting our past as we steer into the future. We examine what this means for consciousness, identity, and even life itself. Could plants and microbes also follow these generative principles? Is language not just a communication tool, but a kind of operating system for the mind—and maybe even for nature? The implications are enormous: language may be the ultimate programming language, and LLMs might not be crude simulations but mirrors held up to the cognitive system itself.