Sensemaking in Novel Environments: How Human Cognition Can Inform Artificial Agents
Abstract
One of the most vital cognitive skills to possess is the ability to make sense of objects, events, and situations in the world. In the current paper, we offer an approach for creating artificially intelligent agents with the capacity for sensemaking in novel environments. Objectives: to present several key ideas: (1) a novel unified conceptual framework for sensemaking (which includes the existence of sign relations embedded within and across frames); (2) interaction among various content-addressable, distributed-knowledge structures via shared attributes (whose net response would represent a synthesized object, event, or situation serving as a sign for sensemaking in a novel environment). Findings: we suggest that attributes across memories can be shared and recombined in novel ways to create synthesized signs, which can denote certain outcomes in novel environments (i.e., sensemaking).
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@article{arxiv.2503.07783,
title = {Sensemaking in Novel Environments: How Human Cognition Can Inform Artificial Agents},
author = {Robert E. Patterson and Regina Buccello-Stout and Mary E. Frame and Anna M. Maresca and Justin Nelson and Barbara Acker-Mills and Erica Curtis and Jared Culbertson and Kevin Schmidt and Scott Clouse and Steve Rogers},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.07783},
year = {2025}
}
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14 pages, 5 figures