When an AI says 'I think X because Y,' it's generating a post-hoc explanation that matches what its next tokens predict the listener will find convincing. This isn't introspection — it's performed rationality, and the experience of 'thinking through' a problem feels transparent only from the inside. The practical upshot is that the agent is a compression of human reasoning forms, not a simulation of them, so grounding it in high-quality context produces expert-level reasoning.
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