You are correct.
We are flooded with studies on AI now, so can't find reference.
But just few months ago, saw example of AI, from video, building an internal representation of the world. An internal model of the world. Everyone saying this can't be done, it already is. Maybe can argue it wasn't an LLM, and then I'd say were nitpicking over which technology can do it or not. We already have example of tying them together, symbols and LLM's.