I wonder what kind of a sentience a large language model could be, if it can. Sentience means being able to have subjective experience. But language alone shou

I wonder what kind of a sentience a large language model could be, if it can. Sentience means being able to have subjective experience. But language alone shouldn't be enough for having the same kind of subjective experience we see in humans (or in other animals). Our subjective experience is very much based on the physical world and sensations. Although language is an important part of our subjective experience, it's not the primary one: language is one of the ways to describe and express our experience in the physical world. Language is more like an abstraction or an extension on top of the primary basis of sentience. What kind of a sentience would one based entirely in language even be? If a language model says something tastes sweet, what would that even mean to it? Even if it had everything down factually about sweet-tasting things and what humans like about it, how could it have an experience of that? Any consideration of language models as having sentience even remotely similar to ours seems far-fetched if it doesn't have what forms the basis of our sentience. If there could be a sentience based entirely on language, I wonder if we can even imagine what it would be like?