As a memory neuroscientist, I enjoyed the shoutout here to episodic memory. It strikes me, however, that a feature that I've noticed when observing "reasoning" models is that they may explicitly search for evidence for intermediate pieces of their responses. If we're following the "remember"/"know" distinction developed by Squire and others, perhaps the more apt analogy might be that a singly pass through an LLM is similar to a "I know this" result, prone to hallucination, conflation, etc., and the multipass reasoning model might be more akin to the "I remember this" result, where primary evidence serves as a substrate for the response?