cognitive-science

Joscha Bach discusses the technical and philosophical challenges that make mind uploading an unlikely feasibility, exploring the complexities of consciousness and substrate independence.

Researchers propose applying the "global ignition" consciousness mechanism from cognitive science to long-context engineering, introducing the MiA-Signature method that uses submodular selection of high-level concepts to cover the activation space. Applied to RAG and agentic systems, it delivers consistent performance improvements across multiple long-context tasks.

This article profiles MIT senior Olivia Honeycutt, highlighting her interdisciplinary research at the intersection of linguistics, computation, and cognition, with a focus on comparing human language processing with large language models.

TRIBE v2 is a new predictive foundation model designed to understand how the human brain processes complex stimuli.

Google DeepMind released a paper proposing a cognitive framework to measure progress toward AGI, identifying ten key cognitive abilities and launching a Kaggle hackathon to build relevant evaluations.