Philosophers vs Transformers: Neural net impersonates a famous cognitive scientist

Can computers think? Can AI models be conscious? These and similar questions often pop up in discussions of recent AI progress, achieved by natural language models GPT-3, LAMDA and other transformers. They are nonetheless still controversial and on the brink of a paradox, because there are usually many hidden assumptions and misconceptions about how the brain works and what thinking means. There is no other way, but to explicitly reveal these assumptions and then explore how the human information processing could be replicated by machines.