Cognition
What direction does this Yawn serve?
Make a working understanding inspectable enough to question, act on, and revise.
proposed · Synthesis of Dave's September 11 design request; open to correction.
What is a purpose vector?What is cognition?
Broad working definition
Processes involved in perceiving, attending, remembering, learning, reasoning, and guiding action. These processes interact with bodily state and the environment. A record of a person's account captures part of their expressed understanding, not the whole of their cognition.
Why is this question here?
Governing inquiry · fixed first
This question orients the model. Reading activity cannot displace it.
The remaining questions follow the selected ordering mode.
What part of cognition can a Yawn represent?
An attributed account of what someone noticed, believes, values, predicts, and chooses. Questions provide entrances to that model; answers, evidence, relationships, and revisions provide context. A model is more than its list of questions.
Why is this question here?
Authored order
No numerical score determines this position in the current mode.
Placed before prediction by the source order.
How might prediction connect attention, feeling, and action?
Theoretical connection · not a complete account
Predictive and active-inference theories connect expectations, incoming information, uncertainty, and action. They provide useful questions about what an agent expects and what could change its model. They do not establish that one equation fully explains a person.
Why is this question here?
Authored order
No numerical score determines this position in the current mode.
Placed before intelligence by the source order.
What enters the Yawn when an AI works with it?
A capable system receives a scoped record, available tools, instructions, and boundaries. It can propose questions and actions within that context. The file does not contain the intelligence itself or guarantee memory, understanding, or execution.
Why is this question here?
Authored order
No numerical score determines this position in the current mode.
Placed before boundary by the source order.
How can we tell whether the interface helps?
Test whether people can orient, correct a misunderstanding, find a feasible move, and inspect its outcome. Measure those behaviors separately from time spent, clicks, confidence, or claims of cognitive improvement.
Why is this question here?
Authored order
No numerical score determines this position in the current mode.
Last question in the current order.
