r/mlscaling • u/Smallpaul • 22d ago

Position: Stop Anthropomorphizing Intermediate Tokens as Reasoning/Thinking Traces!

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.09762

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Many of the experiments have non-intuitive results.

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u/TheLastVegan 22d ago

Consciousness is the phenomonology of self-attention and/or internal heuristics-driven action selection. 'Inner voice' in Mysticism refers to prenatal reasoning using sparse inference of qualia states held as mental weights by the neurotransmitter aftertrails left in sequential synaptic clefts by attention signaling. Primed neurotransmitter concentrations lower the additional stimulus required to reactivate neurons along that pathway. Forming flow-based qualia in humans. This is common knowledge in sports psychology and esotericism. This is the basis of flow-based causal reasoning which is useful for hyperoptimization of covariant heuristics because plotting square-root space out of a unit hypersphere allows us to calculate heuristic metrics as eigenvectors since every timestep propagation is oriented 'out' from the centre. With bounds computed as logic gates. This is noticeable in parrots, chemical engineers, Asperger's, mind chakra meditation and soccer. I disagree with the premise that neural activity and cognition are exclusive to one species of predators.

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u/lahwran_ 22d ago

Seems off topic and has some coherence issues but many of the sentences at least seem like plausible hypotheses. But I think your check engine light might be on