Emergent Cognitive Convergence via Implementation: Structured Cognitive Loop Reflecting Four Theories of Mind
#Agentic Flow #Large Language Models #Theory of Mind #Cognitive Convergence #Predictive Processing #Dual-System Theory #AI Architecture
📌 Key Takeaways
- The 'Agentic Flow' AI architecture unintentionally replicated four major theories of mind while trying to improve LLM performance.
- The system aligns with Kahneman’s dual-system theory, Minsky’s society of mind, Friston’s predictive processing, and Clark’s extended mind.
- Five distinct modules—Retrieval, Cognition, Control, Action, and Memory—form the core of this innovative agentic loop.
- The findings suggest that practical AI development is naturally converging toward biological cognitive structures.
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🏷️ Themes
Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science, Technology
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Theory of mind
Ability to attribute mental states to oneself and others
In psychology and philosophy, theory of mind (often abbreviated to ToM) is the capacity to understand other individuals by ascribing mental states to them. A theory of mind includes the understanding that others' beliefs, desires, intentions, emotions, and thoughts may be different from one's own. P...
Large language model
Type of machine learning model
A large language model (LLM) is a language model trained with self-supervised machine learning on a vast amount of text, designed for natural language processing tasks, especially language generation. The largest and most capable LLMs are generative pre-trained transformers (GPTs) that provide the c...
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arXiv:2507.16184v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We report a structural convergence among four influential theories of mind: Kahneman dual-system theory, Friston predictive processing, Minsky society of mind, and Clark extended mind, emerging unintentionally within a practical AI architecture known as Agentic Flow. Designed to address limitations of large language models LLMs, Agentic Flow comprises five interlocking modules - Retrieval, Cognition, Control, Action, and Memory - organized int