This is a great insight. Considering the idea of embodiment made me think of the context in which the neurons in our brain operate. They don't fire in isolati

This is a great insight. Considering the idea of embodiment made me think of the context in which the neurons in our brain operate. They don't fire in isolation, but rather in the presence of neurotransmitters which change the context surrounding the neurons and influence the way in which they activate. If you have too much coffee your brain behaves differently than if you haven't. The current AI models I'm familiar with only have analogs for the neurons themselves, with no ability to model any of the surrounding neurochemical context (which comes almost entirely from embodied interaction with the environment). ChatGPT (et al) has no ability to adjust how it interacts with a user based on their handshake, body odor, what the weather is like, if it slept well the previous night, if they have eaten too little potassium recently, etc.. All of these things are critical to the embodied experience of humans. Being able to mimic speech in response to a textual input in no way implies that the model actually understands and mimics the process that humans go through to produce that speech.