Published December 24, 2025
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Hippocampal Local Updating and World-Model Necessity: A Formal Separation for Creativity and Research Assistance
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This work presents a formal separation between hippocampal-style local updating and world-model necessity. Using information-theoretic bounds (Fano’s inequality, data processing inequality), it proves when local finite-window mechanisms suffice and when global hidden-state models are required. The paper provides minimal counterexamples, memory lower bounds, and experimental protocols, clarifying practical implications for creativity and research assistance.
December 24, 2025 — Christmas Eve
On this quiet Christmas Eve, I simply offer warm wishes to all who continue to think deeply about the future of cognition and world‑modeling.