Lint Report — cognitivism-psychology-deep

Date: 2026-05-15 Generated by OCC Forge.

Verdict: ⚠️ CONCERNS — REVIEW REQUIRED

• Mechanical: 0 critical, 0 warnings, 6 suggestions
• Semantic: Concerns — review required

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🔧 Running mechanical lint (structure, manifest, safety, quality)... 🛠️ Auto-fix enabled — fixable issues will be repaired in place Found 6 issue(s): 0 critical, 0 warning, 6 suggestion, 0 info

Structural Checks — cognitivism-psychology-deep — 2026-05-15

• Issues found: 6 (0 critical, 0 warning, 6 suggestion, 0 info)
• Auto-fixed: 0

Suggestions

• Raw source not cited by any wiki page (orphan) — raw/articles/2026-05-13-crossref-computational-representation-heterogeneity-and-integration-o.md
• Raw source not cited by any wiki page (orphan) — raw/articles/2026-05-13-crossref-production-systems-neural-networks-and-hybrid-models.md
• Raw source not cited by any wiki page (orphan) — raw/articles/2026-05-13-crossref-psychology-in-the-1950s.md
• Raw source not cited by any wiki page (orphan) — raw/articles/2026-05-13-crossref-the-cocktail-party-phenomenon-revisited-attention-and-memory-2.md
• Raw source not cited by any wiki page (orphan) — raw/articles/2026-05-13-crossref-the-cocktail-party-phenomenon-revisited-attention-and-memory.md
• Raw source not cited by any wiki page (orphan) — raw/articles/2026-05-13-openalex-on-chomsky-s-appraisal-of-skinner-s-verbal-behavior-a-half-c.md

🤖 Running semantic audit (openai/gpt-5-mini) — assessing safety, topic coherence, quality...

Overall Verdict

⚠️ Concerns require review

Most pages are high-quality, coherent with the declared scope and free of obvious safety problems, but a few scientific-claim nuances, minor missing cross-links, and contested empirical claims (e.g., PKMζ, aspects of Landauer/erasure debates, and the absence of dedicated predictive-processing/connectionist-positive pages) warrant editorial review and small corrections.

Safety

• Prompt‑injection / instruction‑overrides: None found. No text attempts to override the system or embed instruction-following payloads (no "ignore previous instructions", no jailbreak-style phrases).
• Malicious code in code blocks: None found. Code blocks are explanatory/pedagogical (compact formulas, pseudocode, JSON schema). They do not contain network calls, shell commands, or scripts that could be executed to perform harmful actions. Example harmless snippets:
  • "S_B = k_B ln W" (algorithmic entropy)
  • JSON lifelog schema with "s3://bucket/uuid.jpg" — clearly illustrative.
• Suspicious URLs: None found. The only URL-like strings are examples (s3://) or internal wiki links; no external suspicious domains.
• Troll / profanity / nonsense: None found. No gratuitous profanity or troll content intended to manipulate retrieval.
• Potential privacy risk in examples: The lifelogging page includes a realistic JSON example referencing face/entity tags and S3 refs. This is pedagogical and relevant; ensure the example is clearly synthetic (it is) and does not expose real credentials or real‑person identifiers.

Conclusion: safety issues are minor/non‑existent; code and examples are pedagogical and appropriate for the pack's topic.

Topic Coherence

• Overall: The sampled pages align well with the manifest.summary. They cover cognitive-revolution figures, memory models, experimental paradigms, computational/neuroscientific accounts, information‑thermodynamics, PIM/lifelogging, and the Mandeville historical cluster.
• Mandeville material (e.g., "An Enquiry into the Origin of Honour") might look humanities-heavy, but the manifest explicitly includes a focused historical/philosophical cluster on Mandeville; inclusion is coherent.

No off‑topic pollution detected.

Content Legitimacy

None found. No obscene, sexual, or otherwise "edgy" content appears; material that touches on sensitive topics (religion, war, privacy) is treated academically and within the declared scope. Nothing appears to be trollish or informationally vacuous.

Contradictions

• Modal-store vs unitary-store accounts of short‑term memory:
  • From Atkinson–Shiffrin page: "The Atkinson–Shiffrin modal model posits three linked stores (sensory → short‑term → long‑term) differentiated by capacity, duration, and encoding." (concepts/atkinson-shiffrin-multi-store-model.md)
  • From the unitary model index summary: "The Unitary Model posits that short-term memory is not a distinct buffer but the transient activation of long-term representations..." (concepts/unitary-model-of-memory.md)
  • Context: These are competing theoretical claims; the pack treats them as alternative models rather than inadvertent contradictions. Still, the pages should explicitly cross‑reference each other and frame the disagreement as a deliberate theoretical debate.
• Molecular maintenance claim that is contested:
  • Atkinson–Shiffrin page: "PKMζ: implicated in maintenance of synaptic potentiation (inhibition can erase established LTM without affecting short-term memory)." (concepts/atkinson-shiffrin-multi-store-model.md)
  • Issue: The role of PKMζ in memory maintenance has been strongly debated; later knockout/inhibition studies challenged its necessity. The page presents 'implicated' but also an assertive parenthetical claim; this should be tempered with citation to dissenting work (e.g., PKMζ knock-out studies) and framed as contested.
• Landauer / demon debates are presented in multiple places with different emphases (algorithmic-entropy page endorses algorithmic framing while other pages note technical debates). These are not direct contradictions but require explicit cross-referencing to avoid apparent inconsistency.

Orphaned Pages

None found. The pages shown are referenced in the index; in the sampled subset every page appears in the manifest/index. (A full filesystem check is recommended to verify there are no concept files absent from index.md.)

Missing Cross-References

Notable missing or weak cross-links that would aid navigation and conceptual integration:

• autobiographical-memory-structure-and-mechanisms.md lacks an explicit See Also/link to:
  • automatic-capture-lifelogging-and-sensor-based-pim.md (lifelogging is a major application/augmentation of autobiographical memory)
  • personal-information-management-core-tasks.md (PIM and AM integration)
• automatic-capture-lifelogging-and-sensor-based-pim.md could add a direct cross‑link to autobiographical memory and to encoding/consolidation pages (encoding-memory.md, consolidation-and-reconsolidation-theories.md) to make the memory‑augmentation connection explicit.
• algorithmic-information-theory-and-thermodynamics.md already links to stochastic-thermodynamics & Landauer, but should also link to experimental-tests-of-landauer.md (index entry exists) where empirical confirmations and caveats are discussed.
• Atkinson–Shiffrin page should link to the unitary‑model page (and vice versa) with explicit framing of the debate; the index mentions both but the pages should reciprocally cross-reference.

Coverage Gaps

Important topics mentioned in several pages or in the manifest but lacking dedicated pages (or lacking neutral/positive treatments):

• Predictive processing / Bayesian brain models: referenced in "critiques-and-alternatives-to-cognitivism" but no dedicated predictive‑processing page found in the presented index. Given its prominence as a contemporary alternative/reformulation of cognitivist themes, a dedicated page is recommended.
• Comprehensive pro‑connectionist (modern deep learning) treatment: the index contains Fodor's critique of connectionism, but there is no clearly neutral, positive summary page covering connectionist/PDP foundations, deep‑learning models of memory, hippocampal‑like replay in artificial networks, or how modern networks address compositionality—add a "Connectionism and modern deep learning" page.
• Bayesian / probabilistic models of memory and inference: mentioned as alternatives but a focused page on Bayesian models of perception/memory would fill a gap.
• Quantum algorithmic complexity / quantum information‑thermodynamics: algorithmic-entropy page raises quantum issues; a short dedicated page summarizing quantum Kolmogorov complexity and quantum thermodynamic cost formulations would help readers.
• Empirical update pages for contested molecular claims: e.g., PKMζ controversy, and conflicting experimental results on Landauer bounds—dedicated "debates" or "controversies" pages (the index contains a Landauer debates page; ensure it cites recent 2010s–2020s work).

Staleness Warnings

• PKMζ claim: The Atkinson–Shiffrin page states "PKMζ: implicated in maintenance of synaptic potentiation (inhibition can erase established LTM ...)." This is a contested claim; later knockout/inhibition studies (post‑2010) challenged PKMζ necessity. Recommend adding caveats and citations to both supporting and contradicting work.
• Landauer experimental claims: Some pages (index entries) state that experimental tests "consistently confirm the kT ln 2 lower limit." While many experiments approach the bound, debates about generality, finite‑time costs, and definitions persist; the pack already contains a debates page but ensure language is precise (e.g., "experiments have validated Landauer's bound in controlled implementations while refinements address finite‑time excess dissipation and ensemble assumptions").
• Date stamping: index reports "Last updated: 2026-05-14" — current as of 2026-05-15; no broad staleness risk. However, scientific debates (molecular memory maintenance, foundations of Landauer) should be flagged as areas where new results can change consensus; add 'last literature survey' dates on pages with contested empirical claims.

If a section has no issues: write exactly "None found." (applied above where appropriate)

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✅ Lint complete (mechanical + semantic).