arxivcs.HCcs.CL2026-07-07
Nested Episodic State Topology (NEST): A Graph-Theoretic Architecture of Cognitive States
We present NEST (Nested Episodic State Topology), a foundational graph-theoretic representational ontology for modeling cognition as structured state formation and transformation rather than as a finished empirical model. Concepts, episodes, percepts, and task contexts are repres…