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Diagram comparing human cognitive development with current AI development using Jerome Bruner’s three representational stages. Left: a stable upright pyramid divided into three tiers labeled from base to apex — I. Enactive, Action-Based; II. Iconic, Image-Based; III. Symbolic, Language. Right: an inverted top-heavy funnel showing Current AI Development, with Symbolic — LLMs with Trillions of Tokens — occupying the vast upper section, Iconic — Video and Image — as a narrow uncertain middle layer

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March 10, 2026

Why safe AGI requires an enactive floor and state-space reversibility

With LLMs, we have built the peak of synthetic cognition without the base — and the Anthropic-Pentagon standoff shows us what that cost...

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