formal thought disorder

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• LLM tangential speech or derailment formally resembles clinical formal thought disorder in schizophrenia.claim0.744
• Formal Conceptconcept0.741
  A pair (A, B) where A is an extent of objects and B is an intent of attributes, satisfying closure conditions.
• The inability for autoregressive large language models to maintain states of long-range order resembles tangential speech or derailment in formal thought disorder.claim0.734
  Analogy between LLM incoherence and schizophrenia symptoms
• chain-of-thoughtconcept0.731
  A technique that outputs intermediate reasoning steps, used here to detect verbalized eval awareness.
• thought detectionconcept0.726
  Task of detecting a model's internal thoughts; found by Lindsey (2026) to peak at ~2/3 depth in transformers.
• Thinking stepsconcept0.723
  Segments of reasoning separated by \n\n tokens used as the unit of analysis in ReflCtrl
• Dissociative Identity Disorderconcept0.722
  Clinical condition demonstrating multiple selves (alters) within one body.
• Factored cognition / chain-of-thoughtconcept0.720
  Using multi-step reasoning by generating intermediate thoughts.