He did qualify it as being "not enormous," and I agree it's probably misleading for many and often leads to unproductive discussions around consciousness. But do you not see any potential aspect of the Wikipedia definition: "The mind is that which thinks, imagines, remembers, wills, and senses…" In some broad sense, these could fall under planning, perception, training, control/outputs, and inputs.
Perhaps even simpler given the context of hand-crafted heuristics for planning in previous FSD Beta, having neural networks correctly make those predictions without explicitly coding them is probably impressive in itself, and if it can make even better predictions, it could be mind-blowing for some. For example, the current behavior of going around pedestrians walking on the street feels very robotic of "must give space when X feet away" whereas a human and potentially the new control/planning neural network would give plenty of space when it's clear there will be no oncoming traffic especially in a low traffic residential street with no lane lines, and how the behavior changes if there's say kids/pets or more dynamic traffic.
This particular example might focus more on planning / "think" to decide what's the appropriate behavior, but it probably needs all the other parts to work reasonably well. Do you think the neural network would be incapable of doing that?
