WORK IN PROGRESS - TO BE EXPANDED It is quite commonplace for kitchen philosophers to point out that what we experience is not the "real" world. What our senses deliver is what evolution has found to be useful for our survival. Like many "philosophical" debates, vistas open if you say, so what? What then? What else do our minds construct that is "useful" but not "real" in the usual sense? Do we see worlds that are constructed entirely by our minds? Worlds that are "unreal" in any sensible meaning of the the term? The list is endless. It is here where we find the unique capabilities of the human mind, where other minds are stuck with just being "useful." MATH https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-the-mathematical-world-real/ LARGE LANGE MODELS The following is a good explanation of Large Language Models, which turn out to model a certain aspect of human thought. Most of the discussion is around how amazing the models