Beyond Episodic AI: Cognitive Field Networks for Biologically Inspired Persistent Cognition

📅 2026-09-15
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本文通过构建认知场网络(CFN),利用记忆修饰的集体动力学生成持久的认知场,解决了传统AI缺乏持续认知的问题。
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Cognitive Field Theory (CFT) proposes that cognition arises from memory-dressed collective dynamics that generate a persistent macroscopic cognitive field. Here we develop a Cognitive Field Network (CFN), a recurrent Transformer in which the organized hidden field re-enters subsequent inference through \[ Φ_{n+1}=F_θ(X_{n+1},Φ_n). \] Rather than prescribing an explicit memory operation, the CFN allows new information to act on an already history-dependent collective state. We find that learning organizes persistent, content-dependent recurrent dynamics whose timescale increases systematically with the trained recurrent horizon. Semantic continuation propagates the recurrent state far beyond this horizon without replay of the target answer. Without content-specific support, the field exhibits finite passive relaxation, whereas periodic re-exposure to relevant input repeatedly renews the surviving state and drives it toward an approximately stationary nonzero regime. Unrelated-input and recurrence-off controls do not reproduce this behavior, while near-paraphrased re-exposure produces weaker renewal, demonstrating representation-sensitive persistence. These results distinguish three dynamical processes: collective memory dressing forms and sustains a history-dependent cognitive field, structured input reorganizes this field, and cross-cycle re-entry makes the resulting state causally available to subsequent inference. The CFN therefore provides a controlled computational platform for studying persistent, history-dependent cognitive dynamics without a separately prescribed memory system.
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Cognitive Field Networks
Persistent Cognition
Recurrent Dynamics
History-Dependent
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Cognitive Field Network (CFN)
persistent cognition
recurrent dynamics
history-dependent
representation-sensitive persistence
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Byung Gyu Chae
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, 218 Gajeong-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34129, Republic of Korea