[tsimionescu]

We don't know how memories are encoded in the brain, but "electricity" is definitely not a good enough abstraction.

And human language is a mechanism for referring to human experiences (both internally and between people). If you don't have the experiences, you're fundamentally limited in how useful human language can be to you.

I don't mean this in some "consciousness is beyond physics, qualia can't be explained" bullshit way. I just mean it in a very mechanistic way: language is like an API to our brains. The API allows us to work with objects in our brain, but it doesn't contain those objects itself. Just like you can't reproduce, say, the Linux kernel just by looking at the syscall API, you can't replace what our brains do by just replicating the language API.