New Paper: Cognitive Offloading Is a Cognitive Universal, from Cells to LLMs
MacrinePhD · x · 2026-08-08
A new paper by Chris Fields and Michael Levin argues that cognitive offloading is a cognitive universal, showing how everything from living cells to LLMs offload computation onto their environment to survive and solve problems. The paper touches on cognitive science, physics, active inference, biology, and the free energy principle.
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