A blogger says words are a byproduct of consciousness. The thread brought Helen Keller (ranpara.net)
A short essay argues humans think first and speak second, so meaning underlies our words, while an LLM is 'a big pile of words that predicts the next word' with meaning as an accidental byproduct. 183 comments mostly took it apart.
The killer counter: a reader quoted Helen Keller's pre-language memoir, 'Before my teacher came to me, I did not know that I am,' suggesting consciousness may follow language, not precede it. Others noted the LLM has no words inside it at all, only vector embeddings.
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