llms have absolutely zero intrinsic model of spacetime. time enters only as an externally supplied symbol like a timestamp or token order. there is no duration concept or anything close to lorentzian geometry. reasoning about spacetime as an abstract concept is different from experiencing it. but here is the problem. we do not perceive spacetime directly either. what we call the passage of time may be an emergent construction built from memory, biological clocks or prediction at best. the brain continuously compares a remembered state with a present state and anticipates a future one. that creates the subjective sensation of duration and motion through time but not the intrinsic temporal frame itself. so in a way either there is no time to perceive or we’re just primitive biological llms isolated from most of reality, trying to infer its deeper structure from a tiny stream of signals available to us.
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