Joscha Bach says spatial cognition generally does not require an end-to-end trained system, and people nevertheless tend to regard systems that experience themselves as magical.

“But by and large, right, you don't need to have an end-to-end train system to do this. And if you have an end-to-end train system, you don't think there's any magic going on in there. Whereas people expect that a thing that experiences itself, experiencing is somehow magical.”