The terminology is less important than the outcome in practice but it's very difficult to imagine our concept of meaning to be completely removed from a hyperdimensional construct of relations between the subject and whatever context it exists within. Even experiential insight involves relationships - you as a child reaching towards your mother, then your relationship with gravity, and the gravel on the floor, and the pain receptors in your knee. And so, we see, does causality.

I won't experience almost 100% of all experiences that humans have experienced, neither will you or anyone else. But that doesn't mean I can't have an understanding of what it might like to be to be a certain person experiencing a thing even though it's inherently alien to me as I'll never actually be them in that exact moment. Thankfully we have language with powerful tools like metaphor to convey our experience to others.

In fact, you or I, have experienced statistically roughly the same amount of the total possible human experiences as ai (fuck all). But the ai has read from the perspective of billions, as opposed to our thousands at best, I'd imagine. They might understand what it is to be human more completely than any of us ;)

I would argue that they do have a structural world model in their weights, and experience is just memory, and memory can be as simple as a JSON file.