3 papers
cs.AI2026
Hume's Representational Conditions for Causal Judgment: What Bayesian Formalization Abstracted Away
Yiling Wu
Hume's account of causal judgment presupposes three representational conditions: experiential grounding (ideas must trace to impressions), structured retrieval (association must op…
cs.AI2026
The Presupposition Problem in Representation Genesis
Yiling Wu
Large language models are the first systems to achieve high cognitive performance without clearly undergoing representation genesis: the transition from a non-representing physical…
cs.AI2026
The Reasoning Error About Reasoning: Why Different Types of Reasoning Require Different Representational Structures
Yiling Wu
Different types of reasoning impose different structural demands on representational systems, yet no systematic account of these demands exists across psychology, AI, and philosoph…