Truly means real. Assuming you are a human, you can truly relate and connect ideas with your experiences. You can know what a rose is both in relation to having

Truly means real. Assuming you are a human, you can truly relate and connect ideas with your experiences. You can know what a rose is both in relation to having seen and smelled it and if now having experienced flowers and rose like things. Without qualia you can not know and understand a rose. An LLM no mater how big can never have experienced any of this. The closest it can ever come is to have been trained on the tokens in texts relating to roses. If its more than an LLM it might have also been shown images or even video or roses but no LLM alone has ever seen a rose. LLMs can only contain understanding the way a book can. There is no sentience in a book. Even if we jump to the old analogy of the Chinese room the instruction book in not conscious, nor is the reader following the instructions able to actually speak Chinese. It's beyond and between where lies the entity thar can converse in Chinese.