[ExI] LLM's cannot be concious

[Adrian Tymes]

On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 6:18 PM Gordon Swobe via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> I think it was Adrian who asked you that question. A referent as I use the
> term is something that exists outside of language to which a word refers.
> You have an apple in your hand and you say "this is an apple." The apple in
> your hand is the referent that corresponds to your word "apple."
>
> As for whether referents are data, it is unclear to me how referents could
> be data. I am inclined to say no but I am not sure what Adrain is getting
> at here.
>

Ah, I thought you meant that the referent was the *fact that* that was an
apple, rather than the referent being the apple itself.  Facts are data;
objects (such as apples) are not.
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