There are humans that do not experience emotions, they are not un-real pipes.
Featherless biped -> no-true Scotsman goalpost moving [saving us that step]
Humans are no more capable of originality, just more convinced of their illusion of consciousnesses. You could literally not pick a human out of a conversational line-up, so it is moot - computationally functionally equivalent.
At some point, their models will 1:1 our neuron count, and Pigeonhole principle then implies we are the "less intelligent ones" since "internal model" (implicit parameter count) is the goalpost of the hour.
Ability to generate words describing emotions are not the same thing as the LLM having real emotions