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Why Pure Reasoning is Not Enough: Nature as the Source of Mathematical Innovation

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We advance the hypothesis that human mathematical reasoning, constrained by both the undecidability and the computational intractability of even modest logical fragments, relies fundamentally on pattern matching from domains external to pure deduction. The most prolific reservoir of such patterns is the natural world, whose physical laws and biological systems have undergone billions of years of ``pre-computation'' and already exhibit surprisingly innovative solutions.

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arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 7

Fractal basins trap latent reasoning

The paper reports that reasoning models in AI exhibit transient chaos, a phenomenon linked to computational complexity. It finds that these models behave as dynamical systems with fractal basins, and that the fractality grows with task difficulty across domains such as Sudoku, maze solving, visual puzzles, and mathematical logic. The study attributes slowdowns to the models becoming trapped near saddle points representing nearly‑correct solutions.

By Jeffrey Lai, Anthony Bao, John Quinn, William Gilpin