blog.ckpt – Posts tagged Cognition
Bonfires in the Dark: Ritual, Science, and AI. The Interfaces We Live By.
Old ritual was not bad science but a coordination layer running under hard constraints. A look at how ritual, science, and AI each carry the work of building a world model and binding a community.
The Map Without a Vision: Your Brain Navigates a World You Can't Picture
Much of brain computation stays below conscious access. Only a small subset of competing states ever wins broadcast. A family of conditions shares one fault line where the map and the report come apart. That split is also the architecture we are building agents on.
AI as Cognitive Prosthetic: You are the art, AI is an interface, the result is value.
Moving from answer generation to insight extraction. Agentic systems should augment human thought. They function as high-performance 'cyberpunk chrome' designed to extract and amplify the wisdom already present in your mind.
Yggdrasil: Parallel AI Reasoning Architecture
A single tree grows in one direction. Yggdrasil doesn't just explore parallel paths. It detects when insights from one cognitive realm unlock breakthroughs in another, then builds the bridge.
The Event Horizon of Thought: Where Attention Meets Architecture
Exploring the hard limits of attention - whether human working memory or AI context windows - as fundamental structures to be navigated. A framework for designing workflows that respect the physics of thought.