Pattern-matching is faster because it's the "normal" path that the human mind naturally takes. The "slow fallback" is an exception, and an optional one at that.

Pattern-matching is faster because it's the "normal" path that the human mind naturally takes. The "slow fallback" is an exception, and an optional one at that. There is quite a number of humans who would be able to solve 5+5 but not 4523+5438. If human mind was based on logic, 20+80 and 54+39 would be equally as fast. As they are for a calculator. The calculator has a simple, fast, broadly applicable addition primitive based on pure binary logic. Humans don't. In case of addition, LLMs work the same way humans do. They have "happy paths" of pattern-matching, and a slow unreliable "fallback path". They just have better "happy path" coverage than almost all humans do. And your attempts at making your "theory" look any better than phlogiston are rather pathetic. I'm not asking you "what logic can do". I'm asking you "what your theory can do". Nothing of value.