Stop for one second and ask yourself a simple question. Where do your words come from?

When you speak, what comes first, the idea or the word? Do you first feel a thought inside you, and only after that go searching for the right word to wrap around it? I think we all do. The word is never the start. The word is just the skin. The idea, the consciousness, is the thing sitting under it.

Now ask the same question about an LLM. For an LLM, it is exactly the opposite. And I think this one small difference explains almost everything about where we are heading.