Executable Epistemology: The Structured Cognitive Loop as an Architecture of Intentional Understanding
arXiv Preprint Archive October 10, 2025 Myung Ho Kim preprint
Large language models exhibit intelligence without genuine epistemic understanding, exposing a key gap: the absence of epistemic architecture. This paper introduces the Structured Cognitive Loop (SCL) as an executable epistemological framework for emergent intelligence. Unlike traditional AI research asking "what is intelligence?" (ontological), SCL asks "under what conditions does cognition...