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.
Embodied cognition — cognition as embodied, embedded, enacted or extended — enactivism and sense-making, coordination dynamics, situated robotics, and mind as organism–environment coupling (group: philosophy; ADR-025).
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| # | Title | Summary | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| QUESTION-095 | Is leaving the result of a computation where it can be cheaply retrieved the same trade as amortizing the computation, and does one account of when it pays cover a crew’s speed bugs, a record’s filed arguments and a reasoner’s reused inferences? | The owner, after reading Hutchins’s cockpit paper: “amortized retrieval is actually a kind of amortized computation”. The speed bugs are computed once at low load and read back as a judgement of spatial adjacency. CLAIM-303 said filing moves work across time; TERM-055’s note said retrieval can be done before the request. This asks whether those are one trade, and which literature has formalized it. | Open |
| QUESTION-235 | When looking and holding are priced independently and timed per person, do people still prefer re-fetching information that stays in view where it costs more total time? | The promotion condition formerly on THEORY-334, moved unchanged when that account was narrowed to what Ballard et al. (1997) observed in block copying and promoted on 2026-10-20 (ADR-047 v3). Open: whether holding information carries a cost beyond time, as Ballard et al. infer, or people’s choices follow total time, as Gray et al.’s model (THEORY-346) does. | Open |
| QUESTION-256 | What forms of continuity must a person keep to remain capable of governing changes in their own practical organization, and which of those forms can other processes, other people or the environment supply? | A26’s closing question in the exchange of 2026-10-22, drawn from the owner’s case of Clive Wearing (CASE-137). Wearing keeps skilled and short-horizon organization with almost no autobiographical continuity, and is sustained by others’ memory and routine. An answer would say which continuities self-governance needs (skill, short-horizon organization, autobiographical memory, experienced ownership of one’s past) and which can be held outside the person, as the extended mind holds a belief in Otto’s notebook. | Open |
| QUESTION-342 | In an independent replication of the 2 × 2 removal of shared music and of visual contact in dancing dyads, or a reanalysis of the public data under another movement decomposition, do the music-driven and partner-driven components stay distinct with an equivalence test bounding their interaction near zero, and does a temporal measure other than periodicity (phase lags, directional measures) still fail to tell them apart while a spatial one succeeds? | The promotion condition formerly on THEORY-891, moved here when the status review of 2026-10-30 promoted it under ADR-065. The direction of the partner-driven coupling stays outside it, as the old condition said. | Open |