Reasoning as Pattern Matching: Shared Mechanisms in Human and LLM Everyday Reasoning

arXiv:2606.13607 · cs.AI · Submitted 2026-06-11 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-06-11

Updated: 2026-10-05

Terminology

• World Model — 2× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Causal Reasoning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes

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