natural language may provide part of the scaffolding for reasoning, but the capability itself seems to depend more on learned transformations over internal repr

natural language may provide part of the scaffolding for reasoning, but the capability itself seems to depend more on learned transformations over internal representations than on language alone refs: https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.17819 https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.17819 https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.06769 https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.06769