philosopher Jacques Derrida saw language as a self-contained system, which is a good description of what goes on inside an LLM. For the machine, words only refe

philosopher Jacques Derrida saw language as a self-contained system, which is a good description of what goes on inside an LLM. For the machine, words only refer to other words rather than having a relation to external reality. This means that any sequence of words generated by an LLM is derived solely from its relationship to other words within the linguistic system, not from any “understanding”