[chimpanzee]

Imagine a world without words. No need to imagine really. It exists. It’s everywhere. It’s the core. It’s what words represent, but words can only represent it to an entity that has experienced it to some degree. ChatGPT “knows” nothing about it. You do. Whether you recognize it or not.

ChatGPT is a machine, an algorithm, a recombinator of symbols. It doesn’t know what the symbols refer to because each symbol necessarily refers to another symbol until you finally reach a symbol that refers to a shared, real experience…perhaps (Hello Wittgenstein!). And ChatGPT has no experience. Just symbols. It can’t intuit anything. It can’t feel anything. Even if you put quotes around “feel”, what does that even mean for a software algorithm running on hardware that does not feed continuous, variable electrical sensations to the algorithm? It only feeds discrete symbols. Do you feel the number 739? Or do you “feel” it? Um what? Whatever inner experience 739 happens to produce in you is grounded in some real experiences in the past. Likewise any fake memories you have that somehow seem real, those are still grounded in a real feelings at some point. You could do this ad infinitum. If you are alive, you have experience. But ChatGPT has no experience, no grounding.

Problem here might be that we are trying to use words and logic to describe something that cannot be described by either.

This is why the gong is struck.