I agree that any system claiming general intelligence must be able to form and modify a model of the world. A fundamental part of this is being able to ask coun

I agree that any system claiming general intelligence must be able to form and modify a model of the world. A fundamental part of this is being able to ask counterfactual questions on its own understanding or knowledge of the world. The history of science is full of countless such examples. As of right now I'm not aware of any LLMs or indeed any AI system being able to do so.