> You are a state machine.

Humans are analog, state machines are not. And the analogue I will use here is that a model of anything is not the thing itself by definition.

> We are perhaps different stochastic parrots than the models we create, but likely stochastic parrots none the less.

To parrot is to "to repeat by rote"[0]. Algorithms, such as LLM's, do so as that is all they can do.

I choose to not limit myself to being a parrot. Which is why I am not one.

As Descartes proffers:

  The only thing we have power over in the universe is our 
  own thoughts.[1]

1 - https://www.azquotes.com/quote/1521522