> LLMs have inherited the statistical structure of the symbiont without the host: pattern without grounding.

I like this. I think it's not too far a leap to suggest something like "soul" without "body" -- a spirit in the truest sense. I think there's real value in the things we've believed ourselves to be made of though deep time, though without evidence or proper provenance. I suspect we've always been grappling to find language for the unnameable things.

Some of my own [somewhat outdated] reflections on language from the time I came across it, in case you're interested :) https://nodescription.net/notes/#2019-07-13