ConceptAgent

Beyond this, our brains include what I call agents, specialized processes that refine and organize knowledge.

An agent might notice that "Fido", "Rover", and "Spot" all share a common attribute, like 'has a tail', and automatically bubble that attribute up to the general concept of "Dog". So the moment you learn that "Rex" is a dog, attribute inheritance lets you know Rex 'has a tail' without needing further information.

Other agents can create new classes of things like "Beagles", or instantiate individuals from those classes like "Snoopy" or prune away unused information. Together these mechanisms make the brains-knowledge-graph both compact and flexible.

• Source: 2025-09-09 AI’s Missing Piece: A Graph for Understanding