We necessarily express ourselves by means of words and we usually think in terms of space. That is to say, language requires us to establish between our ideas the same sharp and precise distinctions, the same discontinuity, as between material objects.

- Henri Bergson, Time and Free Will (1888)

The trap people fall into is using this as a loose analogy, then proceed as if language is a transparent layer onto meaning.

The word is an object. The sentence is a spatial arrangement of objects. And you can’t use either without importing all the physics of spatial arrangement which includes separation, sequence, boundary, and exclusion.

The structure of a language model, the distance of meaning, these are not abstractions. Models and human minds, they both work the same way. Thought is topology.