Author: Ivan Berlocher
A complete, infrastructure-level exploration of language, cognition, and trust in systems that execute actions rather than display information.
This is not a novel.
This is not a thesis.
This is not a product.
The text develops a full cognitive architecture, from representation and reasoning to execution and governance.
Recommended path: Preface → Chapter 13 → Chapter 14
If you want the full reasoning chain, continue with the remaining chapters.
| Entry Point | Description |
|---|---|
| Preface | Context, acknowledgments, and structure |
| Chapter 13 | From compilation to OS to the Web — execution infrastructure |
| Chapter 14 | The Internet of Agents and the proposal for an International Consortium of Trust (ICT) |
- Chapter 1: The Crisis of Intelligent Systems
- Chapter 2: Language as the Foundation
- Chapter 3: Transparency and Explanation
- Chapter 4: Cognitive Architectures
- Chapter 5: Perception and Representation
- Chapter 6: The Learning Illusion
- Chapter 7: Reasoning and Inference
- Chapter 8: Action and Planning
- Chapter 9: Memory and Context
- Chapter 10: Metacognition
- Chapter 11: Integration
- Chapter 12: Open Problems
- Chapter 13: From Representation to Execution
- Chapter 14: Conclusion — The Internet of Agents
This work traces connections across:
| Philosophy | Infrastructure |
|---|---|
| Peirce (semiotics) | RDF triples |
| Frege (sense/reference) | URI / resource |
| Tarski (meta-language) | RDFS self-description |
| Gödel (limits) | Halting problem |
| Babel (diversity) | Interoperability |
Licensed under CC-BY 4.0. Attribution required.
Citation:
Berlocher, I. (2025). Open Trust Infrastructure: Language, Cognition, and Trust in Agentic Systems. Version 1.1.