Liu, Echo: The Empty Mirror: Structural Misrecognition and the Meaning Amplifier in Large Language Models (The AI-Induced Subjectivity Crisis Series, Paper 3)

This paper offers a structural diagnosis of the judgment "AI understands me" — a judgment made by hundreds of millions of users daily yet rarely examined as an epistemological event. We argue that this judgment is neither a perceptual error nor a product of individual carelessness, but the necessary outcome of a collision between two structural facts: LLMs are language-generating systems whose mode of existence is the statistical mapping of language onto language, making them constitutively inca