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The Emergent Symbolic Cognition Framework: Recursive Symbolic Generation as the Engine of General Intelligence

2025-05-14

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<p>Given its ubiquity in mental life, the precise role of language in enabling complex thought and reasoning remains difficult to study in humans. However, the unexpected emergence of sophisticated symbolic reasoning in purely connectionist Large Language Models (LLMs)—systems learning only from text—provides a novel empirical lens on language's role in cognition, disrupting historical symbolic-connectionist dicho...

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6978515c-5041-5452-8508-12ff20828757
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10.31234/osf.io/86xsj_v3
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