> "one plus one equals two" can be understood and worked with without ever feeling water over your hand. It is a priori knowledge "Understood" and "worked with

> "one plus one equals two" can be understood and worked with without ever feeling water over your hand. It is a priori knowledge "Understood" and "worked with" are completely different. The complete absence of embodiment is several degrees removed from "feeling water over your hand." LLMs have no sensory apparatus to relate the word "one" to actual, discrete, singular objects. The most rudimentary calculator can represent and compute "1+1=2", but I doubt any philosophical tradition or even an educated layperson would claim calculators "understand what 1+1=2 means." The "understanding" part has nothing to do with the accuracy or truthfulness of the computation; it comes from the relation of the abstract statement to counting of actual objects.