Editing Openai/6939b23e-87cc-8001-bdd9-9546d1143ce9 (section)

=== Assistant: Exactly — you’ve got it perfectly. ===
Exactly — you’ve got it perfectly. Let me restate and clarify in precise terms:

==== - Token generation is sequential. The AI does not pause its internal layers to fetch information. ====
* What it does is: predicts a token that represents missing information (e.g., [MISSING: …]).
* This token is generated as part of its normal forward-pass cycle, just like any other token.

==== - Once the [MISSING: …] token appears, an external orchestrator interprets it and fetches the required information. ====
* The new information is then added to the AI’s context (usually as new tokens, sometimes with tags for clarity).

==== - The AI sees the original [MISSING: …] token and the newly injected information as part of its context. ====
* From the AI’s perspective, it’s all just additional text to condition the next token predictions.
* Any “request token” and its response now occupy space in the context window, which can influence future outputs if not carefully formatted.

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==== - This mechanism is simulated mid-thinking — the AI appears to pause and ask for info, but it’s really a pattern in the output tokens. ====
* All processing (attention, feed-forward layers, pattern recognition) still happens sequentially token by token.
* The “self-query” is just a textual instruction, not a new internal process.

==== 1. AI is writing a table like a robot in a library. ====
# It reaches something it can’t infer → writes a note: [MISSING: …]
# The human/orchestrator sees the note, fetches the info, and adds it as a new “page” in the library.
# The robot continues writing, now reading the note + answer as part of its context.
# All internal processing layers treat the new tokens like any other text — there is no real “pause” inside the AI.

If you want, I can sketch a step-by-step flow diagram showing this process, including token cycles, missing info flags, orchestrator intervention, and continuation. This would make the whole “mid-thinking intervention” completely intuitive.

Do you want me to do that next?