They think the word games work on us, because the word games work on them. I honestly think it's an IQ gap.
In the non-literary type of philosophy (I'd say non-intellectual, because I'm a cunt), the Anglo branch that's basically just nerds making up trick questions, there are a lot of theoretical "zombies," people who are
just like us but [one difference], invented to evoke specific questions.
The big one is the "p-zombie," a theoretical person who's just like us but has no conscious experiences—but they may seem to, to us, because we're out here not knowing they're just auto-reacting to stimuli they don't have the self to sense. How could we tell?
Everyone loves that one Millennial Woes tweet about the impossibility of arguing with leftists because they always fall back on pretending not to understand anything. True enough, but maybe it's not strategic. Maybe they're impervious to experience—or incapable of distinguishing experiences from each other, so they "think" that a word and a thing are the same, or life and a tv show, shopping and morality, observations and demands, etc.
Like chatbots can't be made to understand their own errors—because they can't conceive of
anything. They have a list of words that they kaleidoscopically jumble on demand. To us it looks like they're speaking, but to them it's literally nothing. We can't, in fact, talk to them. There's no them, no talk, no possibility of either.
I'm avoiding saying "golem."