提出认知空间框架,统一分析生物、人工与人机混合系统的认知能力。
Cognition spaces: natural, artificial, and hybrid
- 用组织与信息维度构建认知空间,替代依赖载体的狭义定义。
- 发现三类认知空间中系统分布不均,存在大量未探索的空白区域。
- 强调人机混合认知是突破生物演化局限的新前沿,适合跨学科研究者。
认知过程在自然、人工和混合系统中广泛存在,但缺乏统一框架来比较其形态、边界与未实现的可能性。本文提出认知空间方法,以组织与信息维度为基础,将认知视为感知、处理和响应信息的连续能力,使细胞、大脑、人工智能体及人机集体等多样系统能在同一概念框架下被分析。我们引入并考察了三种认知空间:基础无神经、神经以及人机混合,并发现其占据情况极不均衡,已实现的系统集群之间存在巨大空缺。这些空缺并非偶然,而是反映了演化偶然性、物理约束与设计限制。通过关注认知空间的结构而非分类定义,该方法澄清了现有认知系统的多样性,并凸显人机混合认知作为探索超越生物演化复杂性的新路径的潜力。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Cognitive processes are realized across an extraordinary range of natural, artificial, and hybrid systems, yet there is no unified framework for comparing their forms, limits, and unrealized possibilities. Here, we propose a cognition space approach that replaces narrow, substrate-dependent definitions with a comparative representation based on organizational and informational dimensions. Within this framework, cognition is treated as a graded capacity to sense, process, and act upon information, allowing systems as diverse as cells, brains, artificial agents, and human-AI collectives to be analyzed within a common conceptual landscape. We introduce and examine three cognition spaces -- basal aneural, neural, and human-AI hybrid -- and show that their occupation is highly uneven, with clusters of realized systems separated by large unoccupied regions. We argue that these voids are not accidental but reflect evolutionary contingencies, physical constraints, and design limitations. By focusing on the structure of cognition spaces rather than on categorical definitions, this approach clarifies the diversity of existing cognitive systems and highlights hybrid cognition as a promising frontier for exploring novel forms of complexity beyond those produced by biological evolution.
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