Why does reasoning require cognition? Isn’t a if else block or switch statement reasoning? Or a formal logic proof? If an LLM produces an output using formal logic or a python script why is that not reasoning? A human would offload the reasoning using similar methods. I know when I took the LSAT, I learned ways to diagram arguments and didn’t have to think/reason about it because the formal logic diagram did the “reasoning for me”.

Aren’t humans just “action potential” extrusion machines? What is unique about our neural pattern recognition to make our cognition different in nature rather than merely degree?

It seems clear at this point that the greatest insight that unlocked our current AI acceleration was scaling alone would unlock emergent properties and abilities.