> the poster is unconsciously arguing from a place of human exceptionalism

I find the specifics of that exceptionalism interesting: there's typically a lack of recognition of their own thinking process as having an explanation.

Human thought is assumed to be a mystical and fundamentally irreproducible phenomenon, so anything that resembles it must be "just" prediction or "just" pattern matching.

It's quite close to belief in a soul as something other than an emergent phenomenon.