On that point, I would dispute the premise that "it's impossible to have true language skills without implicitly having a representation of self and environment

On that point, I would dispute the premise that "it's impossible to have true language skills without implicitly having a representation of self and environment". I don't see any contradiction between the following two ideas: 1. LLMs inherently lack any form of consciousness, subjective experience, emotions, or will 2. A sufficiently advanced LLM with sufficient compute resources would perform on par with human intelligence at any given task, insofar as the task is applicable to LLMs