alt Hacker News>The original intelligence that created those tokens was driven by a whole universe of inputs, from hormones to starlight to gravity
Still inputs, that in the end changed something about synapses and their activation. And whether doesn't have a strong enough local effect to be material to the those operations, can be ignored too. E.g. gravity might kill you via a fall or a tide drowning you, but might have zero influence in your thinking at the brain operation level, aside from some influence that can be expressed in weights and such.
> but might have zero influence in your thinking at the brain operation level
Most of the people that I follow that research this stuff at the doctoral level say that they (and modern science) have very little idea about how consciousness works, the mind, and its relationship to the physical parts of the brain.
We know about a lot of relationships, we can damage parts of the brain and see that damage expressed through changed behavior, but there appears to be far more to it than just a wet neural network of synapses and neurotransmitters that can be accurately modeled with a set of floating point numbers.
Also, as an aside, gravity plays a much larger role in how the brain operates than may be immediately obvious [1].
[1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9650717/