In reply to B333′s question, ”...how does meaning get in people’s heads anyway?”, you state: From other people’s heads in various ways, one of which is language.
I feel you’re dodging the question a bit.
Meaning has to have entered a subset of human minds at some point to be able to be communicated to other human minds. Could hazard a guess on how this could have happened, and why LLMs are barred from this process?
Human minds have life before language, they even have life before birth. But that’s a side issue. The issue with LLMs is that they only have access to word forms. And language forms, by themselves, have no connection to the world. What LLMs can do is figure out the relationships between words as given in usage.
In reply to B333′s question, ”...how does meaning get in people’s heads anyway?”, you state: From other people’s heads in various ways, one of which is language.
I feel you’re dodging the question a bit.
Meaning has to have entered a subset of human minds at some point to be able to be communicated to other human minds. Could hazard a guess on how this could have happened, and why LLMs are barred from this process?
Human minds have life before language, they even have life before birth. But that’s a side issue. The issue with LLMs is that they only have access to word forms. And language forms, by themselves, have no connection to the world. What LLMs can do is figure out the relationships between words as given in usage.