I'm sure we don't know for sure that humans work like LLMs, but do we know that they don't?

> are [we] beginning to attribute too little mind to humans.

I don’t think this way of thinking started with LLM. Does Systems Based Thinking also attribute too little mind to humans?

Agreed. I think we, as humans, like to think in terms of various metaphors when it comes to how we perceive ourselves in the world ( for example, "I am not some sort of automaton/robot" when objecting to some boss way back when ).

Highly relevant: Reading Doesn't Fill a Database, It Trains Your Internal LLM <https://tidbits.com/2026/02/28/reading-doesnt-fill-a-databas...>