Some humans - perhaps many here - are reasoning-obsessive-compulsive. But most human it feels, and myself much of the time, are on auto-pilot. When I'm driving

Some humans - perhaps many here - are reasoning-obsessive-compulsive. But most human it feels, and myself much of the time, are on auto-pilot. When I'm driving back home from an event I don't need to reason about anything. I can have a conversation with my friend next to me. -- and I will often even forget that I'm giving that friend a ride back and miss their exit - because I'm too much on auto-pilot. I am just guessing the next word (in my driving). It's a hyper-alert kind of guessing the next word but I'm not reasoning until something really unexpected happens. And even then I may not have the time. I argue that even when I have to take the train and check the schedule, I do that on "guess-the-next-word" kind of auto-pilot. Yes I look up a database (train schedule) but I'm not reinventing the text. I've done it enough times, I'm looking up the database while guessing the next word. Totally within sight for LLMs. You mention "capable". Yeah many humans are capable of reasoning through their day to day life. But many are absolutely not. If you ask them to enumerate the steps needed to take the bus, they will fail. Not because they can't take the bus but because they never think of it explicitely. Never "reason" about it.