[dcposch]

> we can ask them questions in order to find out how they came to a particular conclusion.

For the most basic cognitive tasks, we typically can't.

If you show someone a picture of a cat and a dog, they can easily recognize which is which.

If you then ask, "but how do you know?", I don't think most people could say anything useful. If it looks like a cat and it walks like a cat...

[daoxid]

I was more thinking about higher level reasoning. But yes, a lot of the lower level stuff just appears as thoughts in my mind seemingly out of nowhere.

[lonelappde]

Introspectable Higher level reasoning is irrelevant. Any introspectable higher level reasoning a person can do has already been automated for efficiency.

[daoxid]

Wait, what? Where has this been automated?