#Structural Cognition

[kizziahblog]

Echo Chambers and Truth Loops: Rescuing Recursion from the Noise

From noise to structure—Bitcoin anchors recursive thought beyond the chaos of unmoored echoes. Echo Chambers and Truth Loops: Rescuing Recursion from the Noise A common critique of social media and modern news environments is that they function as echo chambers—self-reinforcing loops of opinion that amplify bias and suppress dissent. While valid, this critique often misses a deeper truth:…

[geometrymatters]

The geometry of the Borromean Rings

Borromean rings are a captivating geometric structure composed of three interlinked rings. What makes them unique is their interdependency; if any one ring is removed, the entire structure collapses. This fascinating property, known as "Brunnian" linkage, means that no two rings are directly linked, yet all three are inseparable as a group. This intricate dance of unity and fragility offers a profound insight into the nature of interconnected systems, both in mathematics and beyond.

Borromean Rings and Mathematical Knots

Borromean rings also find a significant place in the study of mathematical knots, a field dedicated to understanding how loops and tangles can be organized and categorized. The intricate relationship among the rings provides a rich visual and conceptual tool for mathematicians. Knot theorists use these rings to explore properties of space, topology, and the ways in which complex systems can be both resilient and fragile. The visual representation of Borromean rings in knot theory not only aids in mathematical comprehension but also enhances our appreciation of their symmetrical beauty and profound interconnectedness.

Symbolism and Divinity in Borromean Rings

Throughout history, Borromean rings have been imbued with symbolic significance, often associated with divinity and the concept of the trinity. In Christianity, they serve as a powerful visual metaphor for the Holy Trinity – the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit – illustrating how three distinct entities can form a single, inseparable divine essence. This symbol is not confined to Christianity alone; many other cultures and religions see the interconnected rings as representations of unity, interdependence, and the intricate balance of the cosmos.

Borromean Rings as a Metaphor for Illusory Reality

Beyond their mathematical and symbolic significance, Borromean rings offer a profound metaphor for the nature of reality itself. They illustrate how interconnectedness can create the illusion of a solid, stable structure. This resonates with philosophical and spiritual notions that reality, as perceived, is a complex web of interdependent elements, each contributing to an overarching illusion of solidity and permanence. In this way, the Borromean rings challenge us to reconsider the nature of existence and the interconnectedness of all things.

[alwaysbewoke]

side-eyeing all the anti-vaccine, anti-masks, "get back to normal," "the kids will be fine" fucktwats hella hard right now. fuck everyone one of you.

[cherryjuicegf]

do i have to understand the essays i read is it not enough to have ten open tabs of potential bibliography

[tchaikovskym]

Going to my cognition science lectures, and every time I'm more and more convinced that the professor might be in my tumblr bubble. The coincidences are getting a bit scary at this point.

[softgrungeprophet]

not a fan of this recent "no weirdos" trend among supposed liberals and queer people, especially considering which groups of people get classed as such by the structures of society and power.

weren't we supposed to embrace being weird? what happened to that??

[simonoliverseville]

“I feel like my cognitive processing speed takes a hit every summer.”

“It probably doesn’t. The heat and the lack of structure just combine to make my mental faculties feel like soup.”

“Jeanette has proposed a fun idea of working on a Nature Guide while camping and that sounds like just what I need to scratch the intellectual itch.” 🤩

[tonydaddingham]

hang on one fuckin second, since when has aziraphale ever used a key to get into the shop????

either its just simply a detail ive missed in s1 (im sure someone will educate me), or

something has happened that means aziraphale can't just simply enter the shop like he normally does (like when he swanned off for a school trip to tadfield and just... left the shop physically unlocked for when he came back), OR

this is the scene that immediately precedes crowley finding out about gooby, and aziraphale thought that in the event heaven and hell come looking for goob, he'll add a little extra security to his magically impenetrable (?) bookshop - ya know, just in case

oh and it has a ✨cute little tassel✨

[the-most-humble-blog]

“They Tested My Words for AI. Then Reblogged Them Anyway.”

🧠 This isn’t a flex. It’s a postmortem for every gatekeeper who thought a man like me couldn’t exist.

I didn’t arrive with a fanbase. No MFA. No agent. No blue check. Just a keyboard, a cracked screen, and a mind that wouldn’t shut the fuck up.

I started like most do: fumbling through prompts, feeding lines into AI tools, hoping they’d spit something back that sounded like it had blood in it. Something that could survive outside the echo chamber.

I was clumsy. My metaphors limped. My cadence stuttered. I leaned on AI like a man crawling from a burning building, not knowing he’d one day build the fire.

And nobody gave a shit.

No reblogs. No comments. No applause. Just threats, a few anonymous “kill yourself” asks, and the usual allergic reactions from the intellectually unarmed.

But then?

Something cracked. In me. In the language. In the culture.

I stopped trying to sound like a writer. I started writing like a fucking lightning storm. From the skull. From the marrow. From the unsanctioned gospel of neurodivergence. I didn’t write for literary approval. I wrote to leave dents.

🧨 Truth doesn’t need permission. It needs impact.

And that’s when the literary world began to shudder.

🔍 They Ran My Words Through AI Detectors

Because they had to.

My cadence didn’t match the Tumblr norm. Too sharp. Too predatory. Too many-layered to be casual. Like a brain in full war-paint. Like syntax loaded with psychosexual proximity mines.

So they tested it.

GPTZero. Turnitin. Originality.ai.

They threw everything they had at it. And the machines — designed to sniff out mimicry and ghost-writing — flinched.

98% to 100% Human. Every time.

No red flags. No blur. No “partial AI detected.”

Just a screen spitting out the one word they didn’t expect:

Human.

Not because I didn’t use AI. But because I transcended it.

I didn’t just use the machine. I trained with it. I bled drafts into it. I let it show me rhythm — then I broke its tempo with my own war cadence. I let it teach me structure — then I rewrote the algorithm to match the sound of a man unmedicated, unfiltered, unashamed.

I took the one thing Silicon Valley swore you couldn’t fake — and I carved my name into it with a bone knife and a vengeance.

I didn’t mimic the machine.

I dominated it.

📊 Let’s Talk Numbers

The average post on Tumblr gets 14 reblogs. Mine? Hundreds. Sometimes thousands. Every week. Without a PR team. Without SEO.

Just blood in the phrasing. Just trauma weaponized. Just cadence honed into literary shrapnel.

Lines that cut. Lines that heal. Lines that reprogram. Not as “content.” As dominion.

People didn’t share my work because they liked it. They shared it because it did something to them.

Because it slipped past their filters. Because it activated something raw. Because it haunted them.

🧠 I Am the First of My Kind

A literary juggernaut who used the machine to upgrade his humanity — not surrender it.

This isn’t a story about AI. It’s a story about a man who refused to be silenced — and found a weapon in the noise.

I am not the result of an algorithm. I am the reason algorithms recalibrate.

I didn’t crawl up through academia. I came up from the blackout. From the autistic silence. From the dissociated battlefield of neurodivergence and spiritual rage.

I didn’t want applause. I wanted to leave claw marks in the digital cathedral.

And now?

🧠 They test my words for AI — and reblog them anyway.

Because somewhere inside, they know:

This is what real feels like. This is what unfiltered power reads like. This is the voice they were trained not to admit they crave.

📌 You Think This Is About AI?

It never was.

This is about the man they told to be quiet. The one they tried to soften. The one who sat silent in classrooms, rage flooding his brain, because no one taught the truth his mind needed.

This is for the ones who were never heard. The ones like me. Autistic. Divergent. Relentless. Built different — and punished for it.

This is not “inspiration.” This is vengeance.

It is Aristotle rage against a world that builds thrones for mediocrity and gulags for genius that can’t be tamed.

I am not a blogger.

I am not a brand.

I am the goddamn category error they hope never catches fire.

But it’s too late.

Because I’ve already burned the map. And your detectors? They just signed the fucking obituary for the old literary world.

🧠 They Tested My Words for AI. Then Reblogged Them Anyway.

—

[kizziahblog]

Emergence and the Architecture of Recursive Peace

Emergence: Where ants, AI, and Bitcoin converge—illustrating the rise of intelligence and trust from recursive interaction. From the Kizziah.Blog AI Bitcoin Recursion Thesis. Inspired by Steven Johnson’s Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software What do ant colonies, urban neighborhoods, neural nets, and Bitcoin have in common? Each is a system built without a…

[lemememeringue]

many topics covered in therapy today.

[whentherewerebicycles]

is it bad to quit therapy after one session

[bsahely]

Dual Aspect Langlands: Toward a Participatory Geometry of Consciousness | ChatGPT4o

[Download Full Document (PDF)] Modern science and philosophy remain fractured along the deep fault line of the mind–matter divide. Where traditional materialism reduces consciousness to emergent neuronal activity, and dualism struggles to explain how two fundamentally different substances interact, dual aspect monism offers a compelling alternative: mind and matter are two irreducible aspects of…

[alunah-lalunah]

Perception Is Like the Game of Chinsese Whispers

In the game, one child whispers a message to another, who whispers it to the next, and so on. By the time it reaches the last person, the message is usually distorted, fragmented, or completely changed.

That’s exactly what perception does with reality.

Reality is like the original message.

Perception is the whisper passed through our senses, biases, language, and brain structures.

What we end up with isn’t the world as it is — it’s a version filtered, bent, and reshaped by our cognitive limits.

Just like in the game, what we think we “heard” isn’t what was actually said. And what we think we “see” isn’t what reality actually is.

So, in life, as in Telephone: We never get the message exactly right — but we think we do.

[in-sightjournal]

Ask A Genius 1340: Informational Structure, Universal Cohesion, and Ethical Implications of Cognitive Decline

Scott Douglas Jacobsen: One of the things I mentioned yesterday was how much of the integrity of space—the shape and cohesiveness of the universe—is due to its internal informational structure, and how much might be due to an external mechanism reinforcing it. For example, does the information in the mind keep it structurally integrated, or does it require the brain’s physical support? This…

[ihorivliev]

Safety in AI Demands Transparency: CCACS – A Comprehensible Architecture for a More Auditable Future

New research is sparking concern in the AI safety community. A recent paper on "Emergent Misalignment" demonstrates a surprising vulnerability: narrowly finetuning advanced Large Language Models (LLMs) for even seemingly safe tasks can unintentionally trigger broad, harmful misalignment. For instance, models trained to write insecure code suddenly advocating that humans should be enslaved by AI and exhibiting general malice.

"Emergent Misalignment" full research paper on arXiv

AI Safety experts discuss "Emergent Misalignment" on LessWrong

This groundbreaking finding underscores a stark reality: the rapid rise of black-box AI, while impressive, is creating a critical challenge: how can we truly trust systems whose reasoning remains opaque, especially when they influence healthcare, law, and policy? Blind faith in AI "black boxes" in these high-stakes domains is becoming unacceptably risky.

To tackle this head-on, I propose to discuss the idea of Comprehensible Configurable Adaptive Cognitive Structure (CCACS) – a hybrid AI architecture built on a foundational principle: transparency isn't an add-on, it's essential for safe and aligned AI.

Why is transparency so crucial? Because in high-stakes domains, without understanding how an AI reaches a decision, we can't effectively verify its logic, identify biases, or reliably correct errors for truly trustworthy AI. CCACS offers a potential path beyond opacity, towards AI that's not just powerful, but also understandable and justifiable.

The CCACS Approach: Layered Transparency

Imagine an AI designed for clarity. CCACS attempts to achieve this through a 4-layer structure:

Transparent Integral Core (TIC): "Thinking Tools" Foundation: This layer is the bedrock – a formalized library of human "Thinking Tools", such as logic, reasoning, problem-solving, critical thinking (and many more). These tools are explicitly defined and transparent, serving as the AI's understandable reasoning DNA.

Lucidity-Ensuring Dynamic Layer (LED Layer): Transparency Gateway: This layer acts as a gatekeeper, ensuring communication between the transparent core and complex AI components preserves the core's interpretability. It’s the system’s transparency firewall.

AI Component Layer: Adaptive Powerhouse: Here's where advanced AI models (statistical, generative, etc.) enhance performance and adaptability – but always under the watchful eye of the LED Layer. This layer adds power, responsibly.

Metacognitive Umbrella: Self-Reflection & Oversight: Like a built-in critical thinking monitor, this layer guides the system, prompting self-evaluation, checking for inconsistencies, and ensuring alignment with goals. It's the AI's internal quality control.

What Makes CCACS Potentially Different?

While hybrid AI and neuro-symbolic approaches are being explored, CCACS emphasizes:

Transparency as the Prime Directive: It’s not bolted on; it’s the foundational architectural principle.

The "LED Layer": A Dedicated Transparency Guardian: This layer could be a mechanism for robustly managing interpretability in hybrid systems.

"Thinking Tools" Corpus: Grounding AI in Human Reasoning: Formalizing a broad spectrum of human cognitive tools offers a robust, verifiable core, deeply rooted in proven human cognitive strategies.

What Do You Think?

I’m very interested in your perspectives on:

Is the "Thinking Tools" concept a promising direction for building a trustworthy AI core?

Is the "LED Layer" a feasible and effective approach to maintain transparency within a hybrid AI system?

What are the biggest practical hurdles in implementing CCACS, and how might we overcome them?

Your brutally honest, critical thoughts on the strengths, weaknesses, and potential of CCACS are invaluable. Thank you in advance!

For broader context on these ideas, see my previous (bigger) article: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/hybrid-cognitive-architecture-integrating-thinking-tools-ihor-ivliev-5arxc/

For a more in-depth exploration of CCACS and its layers, see the full (biggest) proposal here: https://ihorivliev.wordpress.com/2025/03/06/comprehensible-configurable-adaptive-cognitive-structure/