LLMs and Humans are Cognitive Cousins – Sean Carroll podcast w/Dr. Chandra Sripada
(preposterousuniverse.com)
look like human reasoning
You should really listen to the podcast. Not going to summarize it here, but it looks like human reasoning including semantic activation patterns, use of productions, and dozens of other things that cognitive psychologists have known about for decades but for which they have not been able to come up with a mechanism.