arxivcs.NE2026-07-18
How to Build Marcus's Algebraic Mind: From Minsky's Emotion-Machine Viewpoint
Hiroyuki Chuma, Kanji Otsuka, Yoichi Sato
In The Algebraic Mind, Marcus identified three cognitive components: operations over variables, recursively structured representations, and an individual/kind distinction. He left the neural substrate open. A companion paper solves this with VaCoAl, an architecture built on GF(2)…