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Architectural Determinism
How 2009 Doctoral Research Built Today’s AI Giants
The foundational structures of leading artificial intelligence laboratories are isomorphic projections of the doctoral research conducted by their founders.
Neuroscience becomes planningPhysics becomes alignmentDoctoral priors become institutions
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Two Academic Machines, Two Labs
- Founder Field
- Sir Demis Hassabis
- Academic Origin
- UCL, 2009, Cognitive Neuroscience
- Core Theory
- Scene Construction Theory
Fundamental Concept
The hippocampus is a proactive construction engine, not a passive archive for past experience.
AI Isomorphisms
- Mental Simulation as Planning: organisms evaluate future states, mapping directly to Monte Carlo Tree Search in AlphaGo.
- Experience Replay: hippocampal episodic storage maps to the DQN replay buffer, echoing sharp-wave ripple consolidation.
- World Models: the hippocampal scene maps to the latent state in Dreamer-style architectures.
The Construction Engine
Scroll to bind neurological deficits to agentic architectures.
Holographic Descent
§ Formal Duality
The Minimum Sufficient Representation Problem
Both frameworks solve the same high-dimensional problem: how to preserve the causal structure that matters while discarding everything that does not.
The Formal Duality
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2009: Year Zero
Current Year: 2009