april–june: theoretical fundamental research on tractable modular cognition
march: what if we just engineer the robot sofware infrastructure (and existing SoA techniques) first?
docker jazzy-ROS2 non-Multicast UDP discovery and connectiontion via OpenVPN to android mobile app works!
robot hand build-informed theory development
robot cognition design. started from bottom up
meh, mammal motor control is too complex
2025: robot hand build-informed theory development
AGI & cognitive theories are best developed by buildng grounded systems and replicating behavior and operationalized cognitive capacities
designing and building robot hand as a "causal learning testbed" and technology demonstration...
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2024 autumn:
AI robot problem defenition: essential capacities
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2024 summer hands-on project: implementation-first approach to operationalizing theoretical concepts
debugging, compiling.. re-built it OMFG!!!1 – video, audio, and acceleration sensors for robotics ready to use
2024 prospecting PhD studies
research question, tentative: how slow explicit system 2 reasoning and problem solving [in LLM space] can be automatized to fast system 1 'scaffoldable' capacities?
research motto and orienting big question: how AGI robot could be implemented?
for a possible explanatory goal, what causal pattern offers explanation – explanatory pluralism FTW
[x] how to reason and solve problems in system 2 using LLM's and a set of ML modules?
[x] how to implement cognitive scaffolding?
[x] what kind of representations constitute whats-it-like reality?
[ ] goal: consciousness. explanation: aligment of biological/human and artificial consciousness
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[pass] cognitive architectures
[x] OODA / Sense Think Act Loops
[ ] sensory, motor, and cognitive capacities
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big & interesting questions:
what are the first principles of cognition?
labor-division and orchestration problems of cognitive architectures: for a particular cognitive tasks/work..
what kind of set of cognitive modules are needed: amount, individual roles, and capacities?
how the processing of modules should be organized in order to fulfil a set of desired high-level goals/tasks/work/end states?
interesting questions:
grounding mechanisms in science and philosophy
2023 AGI (artificial general intelligence)
systemic underpinnigns, constraints, assumptions, and cognitive design tools
how much world knowledge can be pumped out of large language models?
how to orchestrate a modular cognitive agent / system?
world knowledge & understanding: representations in latent embedding space, how far we can get with tera byte language data, and respective Transformer/GPT-3 language models? When is embodied, enacted, and situated grounding needed, if ever?
do we need cognitive theory any more? how can it inform us?
Hukkinen, J. P. (2026, June 4–5). Beyond Intuition Pumps – Towards Operationalizing AGI: Causal Chamber, Tractability, and the “Cognitive Execution Substrate” Problem [Oral presentation]. CogSci Days of Finnish Cognitive Science Society & AIdemoc Project at Helsinki University, Helsinki, Finland.
