My impression is that most scientists studying LLMs say that we *don't* understand important things about them (hence they study them).
An opposing view, that we *do* understand LLMs, is presented in this preprint by Guest et al:
zenodo.org/records/2007...
Mysterianism is the idea that human cognition, mind, cannot be understood. Taking this concept and applying it to known mechanism — such that claims are made that we do not know how engineered systems...