[FrustratedMonky]

>"solely by reading text".

Of course, that does leave the door Open, that when these models are put in a physical real body, a robot, and have to interact with the world, then maybe they can gain that "common sense".

This doesn't mean a silicon based AI can't become conscious of skills that are hard to verbalize. Just that they don't yet have all the same inputs that we have. And when they do, and they have internal thoughts, they will have the same difficulty verbalizing them that we do.