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Mechanism

Knowledge representation

timeless2 connectionsdraft

writing what the system knows in a form a machine can reason over

Where it sits

The prism has six jobs across and eight layers down. Its primary cell isrepresent × L1. Hatched cells cannot exist — a GPU does not learn, an institution does not infer.

What must come first — and what it unlocks

Left to right is reading order, derived from the prerequisite_of edges. Nothing here is hand-ordered: the diagram is the graph.

nothing comes first — this is a starting pointKnowledge representationnothing depends on it yet — a leaf in the reading order

What kind of thing it is — and what it is made of

It is part of: Symbolic AI.

How it goes wrong — and what answers that

known failure modes
Frame problemhard to say which facts an action leaves unchanged, without listing them all

Where to read it

The chapter that introduces it, and any chapter that uses it again.

16Rules All the Way Downact 4 · The First Attempts

Where it comes from

paperPrograms with Common SenseJohn McCarthy · 1958

Every connection

All 2 edges touching this node, grouped by relation family — the sections above are highlights from this list. Colours match the relation families inthe atlas.

Structure · 1
is part ofSymbolic AIField
Failure · 1
fails byFrame problemFailureMode

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