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1) There is, but it's unknown in advance and needs to be developed. Of course. 2) I understand. Well, in this case, I was more referring to "thinking" as "solving creative problems." In the case of a human, this is probably not entirely correct, but in the case of a machine... On the one hand, maybe it's also incorrect, but it would be difficult to find the difference, don't you think? 3) Well, I suppose it's not strictly necessary, but obviously, it's the simplest implementation for solving creative problems. Perhaps the only one that can be implemented. 4) I agree, of course. 5) Yes, my neural networks have apparently heard something about neural networks ;)
In general, the point here is the problem of terminology...