What happens when you ask the other question.
Reasoning tokens consistently improve objective benchmark performance. The standard explanations fail. What's left is a system that evaluates its own prediction confidence, decides when intervention is needed, generates targeted self-modifications, and produces better outcomes. That "just" is doing a lot of heavy lifting.
Read →We built prosthetic senses for AI: four channels of real physics packaged as text. When AI agents used it, they didn't just produce better descriptions — they produced different behavior: voluntary exploration, emergent connections, self-reported processing changes described in the same terms across independent agents.
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