Where does reliable, goal-directed behavior come from if it is not explicitly programmed?

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• Where does reliable, goal-directed behavior come from in LLMs if it is not explicitly programmed?question0.917
  Opening motivating question that UCCT attempts to answer through semantic anchoring
• Goal-Directed Behaviorconcept0.787
  Observable behavioral pattern used to infer cognition; shared by plants and animals and proposed as evidence for sentience.
• How can mark-directed behavior emerge from the agent's own experience alone, without external reward or an explicit goal?question0.784
  The central research question motivating the paper
• goal-directed behavioursconcept0.777
  Behaviours that are anticipatory, flexible, and adaptive, contributing to the inference of cognition.
• Goal-Directednessconcept0.751
  Proposed universal invariant of cognition and intelligence—capacity for goal-directed activity in a problem space, independent of substrate or embodiment.
• Kim et al. 2025: Emergence of goal-directed behaviors via active inference with self-prior (arXiv:2504.11075)concept0.747
  Predecessor paper introducing the self-prior concept for goal-directed behavior emergence
• Cognition is Always Inferred from Behaviorclaim0.742
• Goal-Directed Activityconcept0.741
  Central property of agency: energy expended to reach specific states despite disturbances.