Minddriven
Minddriven is a term used in technology, cognitive science, and design to describe processes, systems, or approaches that are guided by internal cognitive states—such as goals, plans, beliefs, and reasoning—rather than by external data alone or by reflexive pattern matching. The term signals a preference for deliberation, intent, and explainability in contrast to purely reactive or data-driven methods.
In artificial intelligence, minddriven design seeks to model or simulate human-like deliberation, using cognitive architectures that
In practice, minddriven approaches appear in decision-support tools, autonomous agents tasked with complex tasks, and some
Criticism centers on scalability, the difficulty of accurately modeling cognition, and the risk of brittle reasoning
Minddriven sits alongside related concepts such as cognitive architectures, symbolic AI, explainable AI, and human-centered design.