> religion which at best can be considered a confabulation or hallucination in the rigorous terms you're using to judge LLMs
Non-religious people are not exempt. Everyone has a worldview (or prior commitments, if you like) through which they understand the world. If you encounter something that contradicts your worldview directly, even repeatedly, you are far more likely to "hallucinate" an understanding of the experience that allows your worldview to stay intact than to change your worldview.
I posit that humans are unable to function without what amounts to a religion of some sort -- be it secular humanism, nihilism, Christianity, or something else. When one is deposed at a societal level, another rushes in to fill the void. We're wired to understand reality through definite answers to big questions, whatever those answers may be.
Non-religious people are not exempt. Everyone has a worldview (or prior commitments, if you like) through which they understand the world. If you encounter something that contradicts your worldview directly, even repeatedly, you are far more likely to "hallucinate" an understanding of the experience that allows your worldview to stay intact than to change your worldview.
I posit that humans are unable to function without what amounts to a religion of some sort -- be it secular humanism, nihilism, Christianity, or something else. When one is deposed at a societal level, another rushes in to fill the void. We're wired to understand reality through definite answers to big questions, whatever those answers may be.