Why Latent Reasoning May Be Insufficient: JEPA Collapses the Perception-Cognition Asymmetry
eigenron · x · 2026-08-25
The author argues against pure latent reasoning: the biological stack is asymmetric—perception begins in an information-rich pixel space while cognition operates over compressed latent structure—and JEPA-style architectures collapse that separation.
In such a model, it doesn't just reason in latent space; it is trained to perceive predictive structure there. The real discontinuity is less "pixels vs tokens" than whether abstraction happens after perception or includes perception itself.
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