question: Comments on an article by Valerie F. Reyna et al. (see record 2022-15515-001). Reyna and colleagues often argue that the processing of gist tends to be both fast and unconscious (the hallmarks of cognitive autonomy), whereas the processing of verbatim traces is slower and conscious. Their argument about the speed of processing dovetails with the assumption that gist representations are often simple and that reasoners are assumed to use the simplest gist available to them. Given a reasonable ancillary assumption that the processes that act on gist traces are simpler than those that act on verbatim ones, the primary assumption about the relative speed of gist and verbatim processes seems justified. The assumptions made about processing gist and verbatim traces are closely analogous to the DPT assumption about the relative speed of autonomous and WM-dependent reasoning: Like Type 1 processing, gist-based processing tends to be faster and is thus likely to be completed faster than the slower and more deliberate verbatim processing. There is a potentially fruitful alignment of the assumption made by FTT and DPT. The argument is grounded in the principle that theories of representation and processing are incomplete without each other. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)