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Do LLMs have core beliefs?

2026-03-17

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>The rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) has sparked debate about whether these systems exhibit human-level cognition. In this debate, little attention has been paid to a structural component of human cognition: core beliefs, truths that provide a foundation around which we could build a stable worldview. These commitments resist virtually any attempt at debunking, as abandoning them wo...

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Literature Corpus work: 2c4aae7e-7988-586e-8229-051af99e31c4
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-9013372/v1

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