Cognitive science
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Part II: Cognitive Science & Neuroscience (200-Level)
The CoReason Manifest translates abstract theories from cognitive science and neuroscience into rigid, computable data structures. For safety researchers and system architects, this formalized mapping is essential: it converts qualitative psychological phenomena (such as belief updating, memory consolidation, and reflexive heuristic bias) into mathematically bounded physical limits that can be mechanically governed by a decentralized orchestrator without unpredictable state-space explosions.
2.1 Fristonian Active Inference and Epistemic Foraging
The manifest formalizes Karl Friston’s Active Inference—the mandate that autonomous systems act to minimize Expected Free Energy (surprise)—through the ActiveInferenceContract.
In a standard LLM framework, exploratory tool use can lead to unbounded looping. The ActiveInferenceContract physically restricts epistemic foraging by demanding mathematical justification prior to kinetic execution. The agent must supply an expected_information_gain, which is strictly clamped to a continuous probability distribution representing Shannon entropy reduction (ge=0.0, le=1.0). This exploration is topologically anchored to a specific target_hypothesis_cid and the exact target_condition_cid (a FalsificationContract) being tested.
To prevent thermodynamic runaway during this search for certainty, the contract binds the exploration to an absolute economic ceiling via execution_cost_budget_magnitude (ge=0, le=18446744073709551615). This ensures that the hardware orchestrator will mechanically sever the execution thread if the thermodynamic token burn exceeds the authorized epistemic yield.
2.2 Kahneman's Dual-Process Theory: System 1 and System 2
The ontology models Daniel Kahneman’s Dual-Process Theory to mathematically manage the exploration-exploitation dilemma during test-time compute. This is handled via two discrete topological boundaries:
System 1 (Heuristic Reflex): The System1ReflexPolicy authorizes the agent to bypass expensive Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) when evaluating highly familiar contexts. Execution is mathematically gated by a confidence_threshold (ge=0.0, le=1.0). Crucially, to prevent adversarial exploitation of this fast-path, the policy physically restricts the agent to an explicitly declared array of allowed_passive_tools (capped at max_length=1000). To preserve RFC 8785 cryptographic determinism, a @model_validator mechanically sorts this array upon instantiation, guaranteeing that System 1 reflexes cannot mutate the global state or induce Byzantine hash fractures.
System 2 (Algorithmic Remediation): When the agent encounters a structural execution collapse (e.g., a formal logic validation failure), the orchestrator triggers a System2RemediationIntent. This shifts the topology into a non-monotonic, recursive backtracking search. The intent isolates the exact syntactic fractures utilizing an array of violation_receipts (which are deterministically sorted by failing_pointer) and a continuous spatial ast_gradient (ASTGradientReceipt). This provides the generative optimization mechanism with precise structural node pointers, replacing unstructured traceback logs with deterministic, high-dimensional loss vectors.
2.3 Hippocampal-Neocortical Consolidation (Hebbian Learning)
The conversion of high-entropy, transient episodic logs into generalized, permanent semantic axioms is governed by the CrystallizationPolicy and executed via the EpistemicPromotionEvent.
To mathematically prevent premature epistemic convergence (where an agent hallucinates a universal rule from a single anomalous observation), the CrystallizationPolicy enforces strict thresholds for Inductive Logic Programming. It demands a strict integer floor of min_observations_required (ge=10, le=18446744073709551615) and requires the statistical variance of those observations to drop below the aleatoric_entropy_threshold (le=0.1). It also specifies the target_cognitive_tier (Literal["semantic", "working"]) for the consolidated rule.
Once these thresholds are mathematically satisfied, the orchestrator appends an EpistemicPromotionEvent to the ledger. This event must cryptographically link the raw episodic logs (source_episodic_event_cids) to the newly minted semantic axiom (crystallized_semantic_node_cid). The event mathematically proves the efficacy of the consolidation via a compression_ratio (le=1.0), guaranteeing a net reduction in Shannon Entropy across the graph.
2.4 Bayesian Theory of Mind (BToM)
For decentralized swarms to cooperate efficiently without saturating network bandwidth or context windows, agents must model the unobservable cognitive states of their peers. This is formalized in the TheoryOfMindSnapshot, which is injected directly into the agent's ephemeral EpistemicQuarantineSnapshot.
This snapshot projects a geometric mapping of a foreign agent's knowledge, tracking explicit identified_knowledge_gaps (capped at max_length=1000) and an array of assumed_shared_beliefs (cryptographically anchored via 128-char DIDs). To preserve the Merkle-DAG integrity of the working memory partition, a @model_validator deterministically sorts both arrays. By referencing this snapshot, an agent can aggressively compress its outbound telemetry, transmitting only the delta of information required to bridge the target's epistemic deficit. The reliability of this projection is strictly constrained by the empathy_confidence_score (ge=0.0, le=1.0), allowing the orchestrator to dynamically revert to verbose, explicit communication if the BToM model's certainty falls below a viable threshold.