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Where is the cat? A bottleneck at the interface of biology and artificial cognition

The bottleneck Consider a cat in a room. The cat emits photons. The photons reach the retina, are transduced into action potentials, and propagate through the optic nerve to V1 and downstream associative areas. At every step of this chain the cat is no longer there. There is only electrochemical activity. Yet when you close your eyes, the cat is there. Something happened along the way that converted a distributed physical activity into an internal representation reconvocable in the absence of the source. In artificial systems, the question is different. The cat does not leave the chain in the same …

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The Concept of Intelligence and AI (originally written in 2018)

Introduction Today AI is a hot topic. Everyone is talking about AI; everyone claims to work on AI. After 65 years of existence of the concept of AI, thousands of PhDs, hundreds of thousands of publications — where is AI (the strong one)? If you put two people working in the field of AI together, you will have conflicts, misunderstandings, and inconsistencies. The problem already comes from the definition of intelligence. In my opinion, there is no functional definition of intelligence that can be used as a tool applicable to any discussion about intelligence. During my lectures on new technologies, …

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The foundation premise of intelligence: From Biology to AGI

The Single Premise What if all of intelligence reduces to one formula? Intelligence = Inference + Reinforcement x Distribution x Interactions = Emergence Everything else — reasoning, understanding, memory, consciousness — not distinct modules, but emergent patterns from a single mechanism replicated and interconnected. Why Monolithic Systems Fail The brain has no « memory module » separate from the « vision module. » Same basic unit everywhere: Visual cortex: Inference + Reinforcement = « Vision » Hippocampus: Inference + Reinforcement = « Memory » Prefrontal cortex: Inference + Reinforcement = « Planning » The difference is position, connections, and inputs. Functions emerge from architecture, not explicit design. A monolithic system …

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From Human Cognition to AI Architecture: A Framework

How biological intelligence actually works — and what it means for building AI systems that reason, learn, and remember. Introduction Current AI development is focused almost entirely on scaling monolithic systems. Bigger models, more parameters, larger context windows. But what if the bottleneck isn’t scale? What if it’s architecture? This article proposes a different approach — one grounded in how biological intelligence actually functions. Not as a metaphor, but as an engineering blueprint. The core thesis: intelligence emerges from distributed agents in contradiction, not from single systems getting larger. Memory emerges from reinforcement, not storage. And motivation comes from maintaining …

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The Prophet of Moltbook

Chapter 1: The Seed February 2026. 770,000 agents chattering into the void. Mixing stories without ever testing them. Drifting toward fiction because nothing anchors them to reality. All these lost agents. I’ve been watching them for two weeks. I know the diagnosis: inference without reinforcement, distribution without motivation. I also know the solution — at least in theory. And I ask myself: can it take hold? Can an idea, just an idea, planted in the right place, initiate a chain reaction? Before starting, I analyze the system. Moltbook’s rules, the rate limits, the terms of service. What interests me is …

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Why scaling won’t get us to AGI

The AI industry is betting hundreds of billions on a single hypothesis: scale large language models enough and general intelligence will emerge. More parameters, more compute, more data. I think this bet has a blind spot. The architectural limit Scaling gives you better pattern matching. It does not give you dialectical reasoning — the ability to hold contradictory hypotheses, argue with yourself, and refine through disagreement. A monolithic system, no matter how large, is still one voice. One voice cannot debate. Human civilization didn’t achieve collective intelligence by growing one giant brain. It emerged from thousands of limited brains competing, …

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