Predictor and picker – convergent architectural features of intelligent agents

Both your brain and an LLM first evaluate options and then pick one. Could this be a universal formula for agency?Note: While this post was not written for the LessWrong audience, I believe it might be of value to people here, and that it meets the quality bar even though my writing is not strictly lesswrongian. It's the first post of two or three part series, getting into the technical details how both LLMs and brains depend on randomness, and how that might help us understand how agency and ca...