distributed cognition

Cognitive process spread across human and non-human agents; a goal of Pask’s and Friedman’s cybernetic diagrams.

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Distributed Cognition in AI
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Conversation Theory
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Pask's theoretical framework characterizing cybernetic control as interactive conversation enabling distributed cognition and subversion of routine behaviors.

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Cognitionconcept0.839
Mental actions including sentience; can be achieved by different biological and non-biological substrates.
What Are The Implications Of Distributed Cognition Inquestion0.833
Embodied cognitionframework0.832
Framework treating cognition as inseparable from bodily organization and environmental interaction; aligned with biogenic approach.
Distributed Abstractionconcept0.823
Key notion where alignment map ϕ maps neurons block-wise to latent variables before constructive abstraction
Distributed representationconcept0.810
Idea that information is spread across many neurons; superposition is a subtype.
Distributed Cognition and Emergent Consciousness in Multi-Agent AI Systemsconcept0.803
Central research question driving the literature search; frames the exploration of whether machine consciousness emerges from inter-agent processes rather than individual systems.
beyond cognitionconcept0.802
Alexander's thesis that wholeness and the fifteen properties are objectively real, not artifacts of cognition, and are fundamental to physics and biology.
Distributed Neural Representationsconcept0.793
Representations where individual neurons play multiple conceptual roles; patterns consisting of linear combinations of unit vectors.