CONSCIOUSNESS◐ DEVELOPINGI · Intelligence▲ Rising
Selection theorems push agents toward world models
Jul 4, 2026SOURCE: theconsciousness.ai
SO WHAT
The window narrows around who controls the model layer; once agents need world models, advantage shifts from users to builders.
Nayebi’s results sharpen a familiar constraint: capable agents need internal models, not just reactive policies. The wire points to a phase transition where cognition becomes architecture, then infrastructure.
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