> The grounding problem is a red herring because thoughts are events rather than physical objects.

What? If they are events they are physical as well. The problem with grounding is that LLMs don't get much of it. They a grounded in problem solving and code generation. But humans are in the real world, we get more feedback than a LLM.

So LLMs with real world presence would be more grounded and behave more like us. LLMs now are like dreaming people, but it is not their fault. We need to give them legs, hands and eyes so they wake up to the real world.