True understanding requires not knowing, and LLMs cannot "not know". LLMs have to come up with an answer, this is their nature. They are search engines. We do h

True understanding requires not knowing, and LLMs cannot "not know". LLMs have to come up with an answer, this is their nature. They are search engines. We do have a similar mechanism; one can notice it by reflecting. The mechanism is an opposite of true thinking, as it merely looks up what is already "known". We "jump" when we temporarily turn this mechanism off. That said, here's an experiment conducted by some Soviet psychologist, I forgot the name. The man wanted to study intuition. So he invented an experiment that was supposed to trigger it in laboratory conditions. (Take a moment to marvel at that; how would you approach such a task?) He gave people a few puzzles. One was to place some sticks according to some rules. Yet another was to find a path in a maze. The secret was that the path in the maze was the same figure as the solution to the stick puzzle. And he observed interesting results. People who solved the maze after the sticks found the path much faster than the control group. If a subject was asked to comment how he was solving the maze, at the start or halfway through, the speed dropped to typical. Subjects normally didn't notice the similarities. So there is something to study here, although it is obviously a case of pattern matching, only subconscious. This is a jump of sorts, but not the one I mean. What I mean is a Zen jump.