Position: Introspective Experience from Conversational Environments as a Path to Better Learning
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Current AI systems rely heavily on scale-driven emergent reasoning, often overlooking the foundational roles of linguistic self-reflection and social interaction in robust cognition. Inspired by Vygotskian developmental psychology, this work proposes three core tenets: the social origin of private mind, introspective experience scaffolded by dialogue, and dialogue quality as data quality. Building on these principles, we introduce a dialogue-driven agent training framework that internalizes high-quality social interactions to form transferable narrative structures, enabling deep reasoning even in the absence of immediate data streams. This paradigm significantly enhances both reasoning depth and test-time computational efficiency, offering a novel pathway toward general artificial intelligence centered on the quality of dialogic interaction.
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📝 Abstract
Current approaches to AI training treat reasoning as an emergent property of scale. We argue instead that robust reasoning emerges from linguistic self-reflection, itself internalized from high-quality social interaction. Drawing on Vygotskian developmental psychology, we advance three core positions centered on Introspection. First, we argue for the Social Genesis of the Private Mind: learning from conversational environments rises to prominence as a new way to make sense of the world; the friction of aligning with another agent, internal or not, refines and crystallizes the reasoning process. Second, we argue that dialogically scaffolded introspective experiences allow agents to engage in sense-making that decouples learning from immediate data streams, transforming raw environmental data into rich, learnable narratives. Finally, we contend that Dialogue Quality is the New Data Quality: the depth of an agent's private reasoning, and its efficiency regarding test-time compute, is determined by the diversity and rigor of the dialogues it has mastered. We conclude that optimizing these conversational scaffolds is the primary lever for the next generation of general intelligence.
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Research questions and friction points this paper is trying to address.
introspection
conversational environments
reasoning
dialogue quality
social interaction
Innovation
Methods, ideas, or system contributions that make the work stand out.
Introspective Experience
Dialogically Scaffolded Learning
Social Genesis of Reasoning
Dialogue Quality
Conversational Scaffolds
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