{"ID":2880258,"CreatedAt":"2026-06-01T04:54:23.091178241Z","UpdatedAt":"2026-06-01T04:54:23.091178241Z","DeletedAt":null,"paper_url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15859","arxiv_id":"2508.15859","title":"Beyond Individuals: Collective Predictive Coding for Memory, Attention, and the Emergence of Language","abstract":"This commentary extends the discussion by Parr et al. on memory and attention beyond individual cognitive systems. From the perspective of the Collective Predictive Coding (CPC) hypothesis -- a framework for understanding these faculties and the emergence of language at the group level -- we introduce a hypothetical idea: that language, with its embedded distributional semantics, serves as a collectively formed external representation. CPC generalises the concepts of individual memory and attention to the collective level. This offers a new perspective on how shared linguistic structures, which may embrace collective world models learned through next-word prediction, emerge from and shape group-level cognition.","short_abstract":"This commentary extends the discussion by Parr et al. on memory and attention beyond individual cognitive systems. From the perspective of the Collective Predictive Coding (CPC) hypothesis -- a framework for understanding these faculties and the emergence of language at the group level -- we introduce a hypothetical id...","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15859","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.15859v1","authors":"[\"Tadahiro Taniguchi\"]","published":"2025-08-20T13:20:17Z","proceeding":"q-bio.NC","tasks":"[\"q-bio.NC\",\"cs.AI\",\"cs.CL\"]","methods":"[]","has_code":false}