[abernard1]

The comparison is flawed though in that humans and LLMs make mistakes for different reasons.

Humans forget things. Humans make errors. Humans' train of thought isn't impacted by an errant next token in the statement they're making. We have thoughts which exist as complete prior to us "emitting" them. Just as a multi-lingual speaker does not have thoughts exclusive to the language they're speaking in (even if that language allows them tools to think a certain way).

This is obvious if you consider different types of symbolic languages, such as sign language. Children can learn sign language prior to them being verbal. The ideas they have as a prior are not effected by the next sign they make: children actually know things independent of the symbolic representation they choose to use.