Topics — What a work is about. Nucleation holds whatever reading the owner files here, whether or not an Anthology of the SOTA topic could also hold it; instruction for ML practice belongs to the anthology (ADR-048). The words are seeded from the clusters the reading-time triage of 2026-09-25 found, and grow by decision.
Cognition — the mind as information processing — perception, memory, reasoning and cognitive strategies — as studied by cognitive science and philosophy of mind (group: philosophy).
3 of 52 ARG documents. Back to the full index.
| # | Title | Summary | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARG-018 | Illusions, reappraisal and interoceptive inference show that experience is constituted by interpretive organization | The owner’s examples at U2 of the exchange of 2026-10-21, the rubber hand illusion and CBT, with interoceptive inference added by the record, offered as evidence that experience is constituted by interpretive organization. They are what a production account predicts too. A7’s verdict, which CLAIM-412 adopted: “These motivate interpretive construction. They do not, individually or collectively, prove interpretive constitution.” | Rejected |
| ARG-035 | Griffiths and Kalish’s convergence theorem and Kirby, Cornish and Smith’s chains show that serial transmission is filtered by the transmitters’ inductive biases | The manuscript’s §8 cites Griffiths and Kalish and Kirby, Cornish and Smith together as showing that transmission is filtered by inductive biases. They show different things. Kirby et al. measured no prior, and their structure appeared only under the experimenter’s homonym filter; Griffiths and Kalish’s convergence to the prior holds only for sampling learners. Proposed: the stable endpoint far from the ancestor survives for sampling learners, and whether people learn that way is QUESTION-137. | Proposed |
| ARG-051 | Mind-wandering, read as Metzinger reads it, is an individual-scale case in which a capacity the agent keeps, veto over its own mental processes, loses and regains efficacy through a change in a condition of efficacy and not in the competing processes, so it is a further instance of the conditions of efficacy governing which regime acts, the first in the record for suspension in one mind | Filed 2026-11-01 on reading Metzinger 2013, 2015 and 2017. The analogy holds in structure: second-order mental control is kept through an episode of mind-wandering (on the 2015 “moderate” reading) and is not effective, and its return is put down to a change in its representation, not in the competing thoughts. It would give CLAIM-027 an individual-scale instance of suspension, which ARG-005 says the record lacks. Proposed, because the two questions that decide it are unanswered: the mechanism is not shown to be the same, and Metzinger’s own account of an episode’s onset makes a goal state, not a relation, its cause. The interventions that would answer both are his H1 and H3, untested. | Proposed |