The Grounding Gap: How LLMs Anchor the Meaning of Abstract Concepts Differently from Humans

Odysseas S. Chlapanis, Orfeas Menis Mastromichalakis, Christos H. Papadimitriou

Abstract concepts - justice, theory, availability - have no single perceivable referent; in the human brain, their meaning emerges from a web of experiences, affect, and social con…