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You can say the same about humans, we only experience an approximation of the real world via our senses, never the “real thing”, so can we “truly understand” it? Yes, in the sense that we can reason about it and make and test predictions about the parts we can understand. The world we experience is based on our senses, and that’s what what we understand. A LLM’s world is text, and there’s no reason it doesn’t “truly understand” the concepts that it’s using any less than humans do