2606.02822 Patchi: Formalizing and Stress-Testing Pygmalion's Relation-Based Theory of Cognition
Pygmalion's notebook *artificial time* sketches an ambitious unified theory of machine cognition: meaning is made of relations between words; words are agreements on labels; context is the base relation from which all others draw meaning; information is carried by *infons* in *situations*; memory is a recursion indexed by an "artificial time"; words map bijectively to reconfigurable "VHDL-style" neural blocks; and a topos-level layer reasons about those blocks. We do two things with it.