> There is no reason to believe that human intelligence is a stochastic parrot. We have a large body of research to indicate emotion and thought are interdependent [1]. Cognition is not a simple, discrete quantity.

And? My thoughts can create a mood, my mood can influence my thoughts. Do you seriously believe that this isn't a trivially easy thing to get even just a LLM to do by itself with the right system prompt, let alone more complex models? Sure, my guess is that it would probably just be role-playing rather than having qualia, but so what?

> The Chinese room argument is arguing intentionality

I agree with IshKebab about the Chinese room. Just because Searle was trying to argue that because the human within the room doesn't know Chinese therefore the system as a whole doesn't, doesn't mean his argument works. I'd say it doesn't prove anything either way, because the human in that room serves the same role as a homunculus in a human brain, leading to an infinite regression problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homunculus_argument