‘In cognition, the sounding of a bell that most often signals the death of the possibility of actual intelligence, is any statement or thought that supposes equivalence between a word, or identity, and knowledge or some other referent. The primary problem, for moderns, is in fact, the concept of ‘what-ness’. And, secondarily, of the equivalence of some word or referent… to any percept whatsoever.”

— an ai