That's a lot of words to say "LLMs think very much like humans do".
Haven't you noticed? Humans also happen to be far, far better at language than they are at math or logic. By a long shot too. Language acquisition is natural - any healthy human who was exposed to other humans during development would be able to pick up their language. Learning math, even to elementary school level, is something that has to be done on purpose.
Humans use pattern matching and associative abstract thinking - and use that to fall into stupid traps like "1kg of steel/feather" or "age of the captain". So do small LLMs.
Haven't you noticed? Humans also happen to be far, far better at language than they are at math or logic. By a long shot too. Language acquisition is natural - any healthy human who was exposed to other humans during development would be able to pick up their language. Learning math, even to elementary school level, is something that has to be done on purpose.
Humans use pattern matching and associative abstract thinking - and use that to fall into stupid traps like "1kg of steel/feather" or "age of the captain". So do small LLMs.