> LLM does not manipulate concepts, it only manipulates symbols/tokens. Its manipulation of concepts is a product of human imagination and anthropomorphism that we like to imbue everything around with.

Do you have proof of this? Who is to say we aren't anthropomorphizing other humans? They're just manipulating electrical charges after all.

Phrased another way, if LLMs actually did manipulate concepts, how would their performance differ? What is a tangible example of the former and of the latter?