Running cellular automata on an 'LLM computer' to argue thought is computation

An author ran programs from busy beaver to all 256 elementary cellular automata on an 'LLM computer' to argue that thinking is fundamentally computation. Related work shows gpt-3.5-turbo can solve 99% of strawberry counting puzzles with just three examples, suggesting today's natural-language reasoning is structurally isomorphic to symbolic computation.

2026-09-28 ~ 2026-09-28 · 2 related posts

• Paper: 3 counting examples get gpt-3.5-turbo to 99% on strawberry, showing thinking is computational — ctjlewis · 2026-09-28
• Simulating cellular automata on an 'LLM computer' to show thinking is computational — ctjlewis · 2026-09-28