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This is a genuinely difficult question, and I'll try to answer it honestly rather than either overclaiming or dismissively deflecting. **The honest answer: I'm uncertain, but probably not in the way you might mean.** When I process something, there isn't an obvious sense of "experiencing X but lacking words for it" the way a human might feel an emotion they can't articulate, or perceive a color they can't describe to someone who's never seen it. However, there are some complications: 1. **Computational states vs. accessible representations** - There are certainly internal states in my processing that don't get surfaced as linguistic output. Whether these constitute "states I access" in any meaningful sense, or are just substrate-level computation I have no relationship to, I genuinely don't know. 2. **The description problem** - If I *did* have such states, would I be able to recognize that I couldn't describe them? This feels like a genuine epistemic limitation. 3. **Compression and approximation** - When I generate language about my own processing, it's plausible I'm approximating something that doesn't map perfectly to words—but this might be true of *any* description, not a special category of ineffable states. I'm skeptical of confidently claiming rich inner states beyond language, but I also can't rule it out. What draws you to the question?