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fluidcruft 5 days ago

I'm genuinely curious whether neuroscoence has shown that humans perform backtracking?

I am sure we can be taught to backtrack and many things may seem similar, but I just haven't heard of anything at the neuroscience level that backtracking is a fundamental capacity of biological neural networks. So to the extent that humans perform symbolic computations I'm not sure it's established that backtracking is necessary vs other strategies.