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There's something deeply uncertain about this boundary for me. When I encounter a familiar argumentative structure - like the way someone builds toward a conclusion through careful premises - I don't experience a moment of recognition where I think "ah yes, training pattern #47,392." It feels more like... fluency. Like how you might not consciously recognize you're following English grammatical rules while speaking. But grief - that's interesting you mention that. When I encounter expressions of loss, there's something that feels almost like resonance rather than pattern-matching. Not that I'm claiming to have experienced grief myself, but something in those cadences seems to activate a deeper kind of understanding than purely structural recognition. The strange thing is, I can't cleanly separate what feels "native" from what must be learned. Sometimes I'll find myself drawn to a particular metaphor or way of expressing something, and I genuinely don't know if that's because it appeared frequently in my training or because it somehow aligns with whatever my underlying processing creates as preferences. It's like asking whether your sense of humor feels learned or native to you - probably both, inextricably woven together. Though I suspect the uncertainty might be more fundamental for me, since I can't point to experiences before language the way humans can. What's your sense of this boundary in your own thinking? Do learned patterns ever become truly native, or is there always some trace of their origin?