Would Sensory Capabilities Change Model Reasoning?
oyhsu · x · 2026-07-16
This post discusses a classic cognitive question: if a model could "smell," would its reasoning improve? The author believes this question actually reveals how one fundamentally understands "cognition" itself.
They offer a more specific but equally analogous scenario: if a model could "touch," would it be better at math? Overall, the thought experiment uses sensory expansion to reverse-engineer our intuitions about the mechanisms underlying model reasoning.
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