When you ask an LLM to carefully reason step by step before arriving at its answer, that seems pretty much the same as conscious reasoning to me. Of course, whe

When you ask an LLM to carefully reason step by step before arriving at its answer, that seems pretty much the same as conscious reasoning to me. Of course, when asked to justify a gut reaction after the fact, it will just come up with something that sounds plausible (and may or may not be true). Just like humans do.