> What this article is not showing (but either irresponsibly or naively suggests) is that the LLM knows what a bag is, what a person is, what popcorn and chocolate are, and can then put itself in the shoes of someone experiencing this situation, and finally communicate its own theory of what is going on in that person's mind. That is just not in evidence.

You can't really conclude that unless you think we have a deep mechanistic understanding of "knowing". I agree that LLM doesn't have the same knowledge of these things as a human does, but it clearly has some kind of knowledge of how these words relate to each other. It "knows" that a "person" "puts" "things" "in" "bags", and for instance, that bags don't put things in people. So it clearly has some knowledge of bags and people, it just doesn't have multisensory associations with these objects.