| LLMs do not contradict themselves because they are confused or inconsistent.
They contradict themselves because every answer is generated from a different local view of the world. An LLM never has access to its previous internal state,
never has a global reference frame for truth,
and never maintains a persistent, self-consistent world model. Each response is a fresh reconstruction from partial context.
If the visible part of the context shifts even slightly, the internal reconstruction shifts with it.
Different reconstruction means a different answer. This is not personality drift.
It is the unavoidable behavior of any embedded inference system that is forced to work with incomplete information. The contradiction is not a failure.
It is the geometry of how the system operates.
If you want stability, you need an external reference frame, not more parameters. RCC axioms in one-sentence form: 1. Internal State Inaccessibility: the system only sees a limited projection of its own state. 2. Container Opacity: it cannot observe the distribution or environment it is embedded in. 3. No Global Reference Frame: nothing guarantees consistency across different contexts. 4. Forced Local Optimization: it must produce the next step using only the local information it can see. |