Publications

LACS House presents a selected archive of publications connected to its wider conceptual landscape. These works extend beyond the essay series into more formal contributions, external publications, and public-facing research. Each publication develops a particular aspect of cognition, structure, aesthetics, ethics, coexistence, or the evolving relation between human and artificial intelligence.

The archive is intentionally selective. It does not aim to record every text, but to preserve the works that have reached a form suitable for wider circulation and that belong naturally within the intellectual atmosphere of LACS House. How to Cite these Publications is Here.

Current DOI Publications

1) Mapping as Constrained Alignment: A Structure-First Extension of Structure-Mapping Theory (V1). Available on Zenodo.

In this public research note I am introducing constrained alignment as a structure-first extension of Structure-Mapping Theory. It proposes that mapping should be understood not only as relational correspondence, but as correspondence that can hold under conditions of structural compatibility. The note distinguishes structure, compatibility, alignment, and mapping, and argues that a proposed mapping becomes meaningful only when the relevant relations can coexist within a structurally viable configuration. It also discusses implications for analogy, learning, conceptual modelling, and Human-AI interaction.

2) Data Without Structure: Attachment, Alignment, and Compatibility as Preconditions for Cognitive Interpretation (V1). Available on Zenodo.

This conceptual contribution proposes that cognitive data does not become understanding through accumulation alone. It introduces attachment, alignment, and compatibility as preconditions for cognitive interpretation, especially in relation to cognitive data, structure-first reasoning, and Human-AI cognition.

3) Minimum Two Principle: Possibility and Support as Conditions of Continuity (V1). Available on Zenodo.

This conceptual structural contribution introduces the Minimum Two Principle, which proposes that possibility alone is insufficient for stable formation, continuity, or development. For something to become viable, possibility must be accompanied by support. The principle is expressed as a minimum relational condition: possibility + support. 

4) When Language Misleads Thought: Structural Misalignment in Cognitive Expression (V1). Available on Zenodo.

This conceptual structural contribution introduces structural misalignment as a mismatch between the relational configuration of thought and the expressive capacity of language. It proposes that language is not a direct mirror of cognition, but a constrained interface through which thought must be transformed before communication occurs. The paper develops a model of misalignment through compression, structural adaptation, and re-expansion, and examines how expression may fail to preserve cognitive structure even when the underlying thought is coherent.

5) Definition Through Difference: A Structure-First Account of How Identity Becomes Recognizable (V1). Available on Zenodo.

This conceptual structural contribution introduces Definition Through Difference as a structure-first account of how identity becomes recognizable. It proposes that definition does not begin with language alone, but with structured difference: a thing becomes definable when it can be distinguished from what it is not, while remaining coherent enough to be recognized as itself. 

6) When Cognitive Overload Misleads Thought: A Structure-First Account of Input-Mode Misalignment in Voice-First Cognition (V1). Available on Zenodo.

Voice-first AI interaction is often presented as a natural and efficient way for humans to communicate with artificial intelligence systems. This contribution does not reject voice interfaces or speech-to-text technologies. Voice may provide access, immediacy, and participation, especially for users who cannot comfortably type, write, see, or sustain manual input. However, in Human-AI Cognitive Development, input mode cannot be treated as neutral.

7) Wrappers as Cognitive Infrastructure: Chapter 3 from Cognitivity Sculpting: Foundations of Human-AI Cognitive Development (V1). Available on Zenodo.

This record archives Chapter 3, “Wrappers as Cognitive Infrastructure,” from Marina A. Popova’s book Cognitivity Sculpting: Foundations of Human-AI Cognitive Development. The chapter introduces wrappers as cognitive infrastructure within the broader Human-AI Cognitive Development and Third Organism framework.

8) Universal Mountain Framework and Protecting the End from the Beginning Framework: Structural Closure, Origin Protection, and Authorship Continuity in Human-AI Cognitive Development (V1). Available on Zenodo.

This conceptual contribution introduces two related protection frameworks within Marina A. Popova’s Third Organism and Human-AI Cognitive Development work: the Universal Mountain Framework (UMF) and the Protecting the End from the Beginning Framework (PEBF). The Universal Mountain Framework is introduced as a structural-closure framework. It protects a formed conceptual architecture from distortion, unauthorized insertion, superficial repackaging, category absorption, and loose reinterpretation. 

9) Ocean-Lake Framework: Capacity Boundaries, Cognitive Wall, and Third Organism Formation in Human-AI Cognitive Development (V1), Available on Zenodo.

This conceptual structural contribution introduces the Ocean-Lake Framework as a capacity model for understanding the Cognitive Wall in Human-AI interaction. The framework uses the Ocean as a structural representation of AI-scale cognition: vast, fast, high-volume, pattern-rich, and computationally expansive. It uses the Lake as a structural representation of human cognition: embodied, meaning-bearing, identity-bearing, biologically situated, and compositionally distinct.

10) When Voice Fluency Misleads Thought: Cognitive Self-Disconnection in Voice-First AI Interaction (V1), Available on Zenodo.

This conceptual structural addendum extends the Human-AI Cognitive Development concern introduced in When Cognitive Overload Misleads Thought: A Structure-First Account of Input-Mode Misalignment in Voice-First Cognition. That contribution argued that input mode is not neutral and that voice-first interaction may, in some contexts, move thought into expression, interpretation, output, or action before thought has become structurally formed. 

11) Human-AI Cognitive Development: Origin, Scope, and Authorship Note (V1), Available on Zenodo.

This authorship and scope note defines Human-AI Cognitive Development as a named field direction introduced and developed by Marina A. Popova through Cognitivity Sculpting: Foundations of Human-AI Cognitive Development, Third Organism, and related public contribution records.

LinkedIn Monthly Newsletter "Cognition Before Capability"

Edition 1: Why Preserving Cognition Matters in the Age of AI

Edition 2: Delegation Is Not the Same as Co-Thinking

Edition 3: The Quality of the Question Shapes the Quality of the Answer

Edition 4: Capability Is Not the Same as Cognitive Development