The production of meaning in the processing of natural language
Understanding the fundamental mechanisms governing the production of meaning in the processing of natural language is critical for designing safe, thoughtful, engaging, and empowering human-agent interactions. If meaning is constituted rather than retrieved, then the search for context-independent features or circuits in the pursuit of mechanistic interpretability may be fundamentally limited. Experiments in cognitive science and social psychology have demonstrated that human semantic processing exhibits contextuality more consistent with quantum logical mechanisms than classical Boolean theories, and recent works have found similar results in large language models---in particular, clear ...
| Authors | Christopher J. Agostino, Quan Le Thien, Nayan D'Souza et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.CL |
| Published | 20 March 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 3 August 2026 |
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