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Cognition Without Consciousness: AI Transformers and the Revival of Human Thought

2025-11-10

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Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate that sophisticated cognitive abilities can emerge from scaled processing of symbolic information without explicit programming of these abilities. This observation suggests a novel hypothesis for human cognitive evolution: rather than requiring dramatic genetic changes alone, human cognitive superiority may have emerged through the co-evolution of two components: (1) an expa...

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3317e9a9-08c8-5ee3-9797-5275770e2fc1
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10.20944/preprints202511.0683.v1
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