We offer a comment on the Centaur (Binz et al., 2025) transformer-based model of human behavior. In particular, Centaur was cast as a path towards unified theories of cognition. We offer a counter claim with supporting argument: Centaur is a path divergent from unified theories of cognition, one that moves towards a unified model of behavior sans cognition.
@article{arxiv.2510.03311,
title = {Not Even Wrong: On the Limits of Prediction as Explanation in Cognitive Science},
author = {Mark Orr and Drew Cranford and Ken Ford and Kevin Gluck and Will Hancock and Christian Lebiere and Pete Pirolli and Frank Ritter and Andrea Stocco},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.03311},
year = {2025}
}