Open Questions
The things we cannot answer yet.
A research page that only lists findings is marketing. These are the questions each pillar exists to attack and has not closed — kept in the open, in the order the pillars appear, so the gaps are as easy to find as the claims.
If two systems receive identical signals and construct different realities, what did the difference come from?
Why it is still open
Perception is usually modelled as recovery — the world is out there and the system reconstructs it more or less accurately. That framing has no room for two accurate systems disagreeing, which is the ordinary case rather than the edge case.
What makes one signal significant when nothing about the signal itself has changed?
Why it is still open
Signal is a property of the world. Significance is a property of the system attending to it. Conflating the two is why distraction is still modelled as a failure of filtering rather than as an allocation that went somewhere else.
What is the thing that persists between an input and a behaviour, and why does almost no architecture have somewhere to put it?
Why it is still open
Between what arrives and what a system does, there is a configuration that persists, deforms under pressure and resists being moved. Models that go straight from input to output have to smuggle it in somewhere, usually as personality, which is a label rather than a mechanism.
Are decisions the starting point, or the final output?
Why it is still open
We keep modelling the choice and ignoring the state it was made from. If a decision is the visible end of a process that has already happened, then studying the choice is studying the receipt rather than the transaction.
What has to persist for a repeated interaction to stop producing a repeated result?
Why it is still open
A system that improves within a session and resets between them has not learned anything; it has warmed up. The interesting quantity is the thing that survives the reset and changes what the next attempt even attempts.
If you have an answer, or a better question.
We would rather be corrected early than late. The work is public for that reason.
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