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Cognitive Emergence

Research and engineering for judgment, verifiable outcomes, and accountable collaboration across humans, organizations, and AI systems.

We study how limited observation supports conclusions, how intended changes become explicit completion criteria, and how actions and outcomes can be examined across trust boundaries.

What We Work On

Research

We investigate target-relative determinability, causal observability, and the structures needed for consequential action across systems.

Accountable Reality Transition (ART) explores these questions through explicit hypotheses, counterexamples, and adversarial tests.

Specifications

Target State Transition Object (TSTO) defines an immutable object for expressing what state change counts as completion.

The repository also contains JEP–TSTO bindings connecting completion criteria with judgment-related event records.

Applications and Experiments

We develop software for outcome specification, evidence review, and completion records, alongside experiments that make research claims inspectable.

Public demonstrations include:

  • Causal Observability Demo — exploring whether available observations determine a target fact within a finite model.
  • COE Core Demo — an exploratory simulation of shared-state formation among agents.

Engineering Principles

  • Explicit boundaries — Keep observations, claims, evidence, verification, and acceptance decisions distinguishable.
  • Focused specifications — Place domain-specific policy and workflow in profiles and applications.
  • Inspectable results — Make assumptions, examples, counterexamples, and validation methods visible.
  • Clear maturity — Identify research hypotheses, experimental drafts, and implementations by their actual status.
  • Revisability — Let evidence, failed tests, and implementation experience drive corrections.

Licensing and reuse terms are specified in each repository.

Related Protocol Work

Judgment Event Protocol (JEP) provides a related event-recording layer for Judgment, Delegation, Termination, and Verification.

Research frameworks, protocol specifications, and applications retain their own scope and validation requirements.

Contact

  • Email: yuqiang@humanjudgment.org
  • Research questions, counterexamples, and implementation feedback: use Issues in the relevant repository.

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  1. causal-observability-demo causal-observability-demo Public

    Python

  2. coe-core-demo coe-core-demo Public

    Python

  3. .github .github Public

    Organization-level community health files for Cognitive Emergence Lab

  4. tsto-spec tsto-spec Public

    TSTO — Target State Transition Object Specification for defining immutable and verifiable target state changes, with JEP-TSTO Binding.

    Python

  5. ART ART Public

    Accountable Reality Transition — a falsifiable research framework for autonomous action across trust boundaries.

    Python

  6. prooftask-integrations prooftask-integrations Public

    n8n workflows, MCP adapter and Agent API examples for delivery handover, client acceptance and verifiable delivery records.

    JavaScript

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