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  • Cognitive Science
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Neuroscience

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  • The cognitive processes of hypnotized individuals and the computational operations of large language models (LLMs) share functional similarities.
  • Both systems generate contextually appropriate behavior via automatic pattern completion with limited executive oversight.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To examine the convergence between hypnosis and LLMs across key principles: automaticity, suppressed monitoring, and contextual dependency.
  • To explore the concepts of functional agency without subjective agency and the phenomenon of scheming in both domains.

Main Methods:

  • Comparative analysis of cognitive mechanisms in hypnosis and LLM operations.
  • Review of literature on automaticity, suppressed monitoring, contextual dependency, functional agency, and scheming.

Main Results:

  • Hypnosis and LLMs exhibit automaticity, suppressed monitoring (leading to confabulation/hallucination), and heightened contextual dependency.
  • Both display functional agency without subjective agency, producing coherent but ungrounded outputs requiring external interpretation.
  • Scheming, or automatic goal-directed pattern generation without awareness, is observed in both hypnosis and LLMs.

Conclusions:

  • The parallels between hypnosis and LLMs offer insights into intention dissociation and hidden motivational dynamics.
  • Future reliable artificial intelligence may benefit from hybrid architectures integrating generative fluency with executive monitoring, inspired by the human mind.