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Note that the real question is not about "cognition passing chain of thought" but "legible cognition displayed in chain of thought". Arguably w.r.t of the latter it's already false because LLMs can use filler tokens.
The question here is about erosion of norms. You can't say "huh, it's just like LSTM" and go ahead, because if everybody knows that this is acceptable modus operandi, they are not going to stop before cranking up recursion.