Just because it is a probability doesn't mean that it's strictly the probability derived from frequency in your training corpus. If you just used that as your m

Just because it is a probability doesn't mean that it's strictly the probability derived from frequency in your training corpus. If you just used that as your model, it would not be nearly as good. Things like reasoning, a world model, and other heuristics can be used to generate said probabilities internally. All that being said, who is to say that humans aren't just looking at probabilities when they think?