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> The article conjectures that humans reason from ideas to symbols while LLMs go from symbols to ideas, but couldn't that just be a post hoc interpretation we have for how our ideas come to our brain?

There's probably a lot to be said about people who primarily think with an internal monologue, versus those that do not, as well.

I, to the best of my own abilities to detect it, do not seem to have a more abstract, non-lingual thought process - I can't 'picture' things in my head like other people reportedly do. When I have an 'idea', it simply doesn't materialize 'in my mind' in any other way.

I, also, would not argue that LLM's share a human-like thought process. But I think saying that human thought requires some abstract idea to symbol translation isn't quite right, either.