>> using human-like(?) reasoning means cutting down the search space by having some sort of insight or intuition which allows you to prune branches from the entire tree
So according to the OP there's a search of a tree and it also uses pruning btw, so I want to know what search they mean. Why are you asking?
Sorry, that's just egregious abuse of terminology. Either you're pruning the branches of a tree (or other graph, potentially) when you're doing a tree search, or you don't do pruning. Specifically advice taking (if that's what you mean) is not pruning.
It's a direct quotation from your comment, not a "scare quote". How does "implicit search" do pruning? Can you explain?
Edit: Turns out "implicit search" is actually a thing in the literature, albeit introduced in a single paper I could find that claims Diffusion Modelling does it:
>> using human-like(?) reasoning means cutting down the search space by having some sort of insight or intuition which allows you to prune branches from the entire tree
So according to the OP there's a search of a tree and it also uses pruning btw, so I want to know what search they mean. Why are you asking?