Re: LLMs are evolving to mimic human cognitive science ...

Hi Milton,

Milinkovic’s lengthy treatise (see the science direct link below) is philosophical rather than engineering. That’s fine, but as an engineer, I am personally more interested in how AI is evolving from transformer-based chatbots to communicating agents that can boost productivity in everyday applications. For this, the current technical research focus is on memory and reasoning, and so far to a lesser extent on continual learning.  Findings in the cognitive sciences are providing valuable research insights for novel neural AI architectures.  The goal is not to reproduce people, but rather to provide useful tools.

p.s. some of the talk about the uniqueness of consciousness in humans reminds me a little of the dark currents of human history in relation to racism and misogyny. and I am very much hoping we can push back on that as AI agents and robots rapidly evolve and become a ubiquitous, trusted and valuable part of human society.

Best regards,

> On 5 Feb 2026, at 15:51, Milton Ponson <rwiciamsd@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks for this update. But there is a caveat.
> Mimicking cognitive features isn't enough. The article about biological computationalism makes a strong case for distinction between algorithm and machine not being in line with experimental observation (
> https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0149763425005251).
> 
> Which means observation, perception, memory storage, cognitive function and processes all blend into a "cognitive and consciousness smear ".

Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org>