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It is an enormous amount of processing, reducible in theory to a single stream of if-then statements, which outputs language, which you are predisposed via evolution, society, and upbringing to associate strongly with reasoning. It's technologically impressive! It is also not thought.

Fwiw, years ago i was really moved to read that, in human evolution, the brain size grew after the troat changes allowing to modulate sounds. We didn't start talking because we had stg clever to say. We got the tooling for formulating thoughts after being able to talk

I feel like what's happened is that we've gotten an existence proof that substantial amounts of "reasoning" are formulaic (which we've known forever) and that thus within the algebraic context or whatever you want to call it of a language CULTURE, it's possible to IMPLEMENT reasoning as evaluation

is it exactly reasoning? who knows, likely depends on your definition. but it's clearly _something_, and that _something_ has fascinating implications.

with ai. i did an equivalent task (sans ai) 2 years ago that took roughly 6 months, end to end.