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The problem with your line of reasoning is that "probability machines" are Turing-complete, and could therefore be used to emulate any computable processes. The statement is literally equivalent to "the mind is a computer", which is itself a thought-terminating clichè that ignores the actual complexities involved.
Nobody's arguing that simulated or emulated consciousness isn't possible, just that if it were as simple as you're making it out to be then we'd have figured it out decades ago.
But I'm not. I have literally stated in every comment that human intelligence is more advanced than LLMs, but that both are just statistical machines.
There's literally no reason to think that would have been possible decades ago based on this line of reasoning.
Again, literally all machines can be expressed in the form of statistics.
You might as well be saying that both LLMs and human intelligence exist because that's all that can be concluded from the equivalence you are trying to draw.