Truth as Routing: Dissolving the Epistemic Distinction Between Human and Artificial Cognition

Abstract Recent work by Quattrociocchi et al. (2025) identifies seven "epistemological fault lines" separating human from artificial cognition, claiming humans perform "genuine evaluation" while AI systems structurally cannot perform operations like uncertainty monitoring and judgment suspension. This paper demonstrates that these categorical impossibility claims fail on empirical examination. By framing pragmatic truth as confidence-to-behavior routing—a … Continue reading Truth as Routing: Dissolving the Epistemic Distinction Between Human and Artificial Cognition

What Counts as Thinking: Knowledge Externalization Beyond Prose

The Pattern That Demands Explanation For roughly three thousand years, each major technology of knowledge externalization — oral formulaic composition, writing, apprenticeship, formal pedagogy, digital demonstration — has provoked the same institutional response: practitioners of the prior mode declared that "real" thinking had been lost. Each time, the declaration was partially correct about what was … Continue reading What Counts as Thinking: Knowledge Externalization Beyond Prose