mindits
Mindits are discrete representations that encode aspects of an agent’s mental state, such as beliefs, intentions, or preferences. They function as modular units within cognitive architectures, enabling reasoning, planning, and action selection. The term mindit blends mind and unit to reflect their role as compact, portable representations of cognitive content.
A mindit typically consists of content (the propositional or evaluative information), provenance (where it originated), and
In artificial agents, mindits support explainable AI by exposing internal state in human-readable form. They also
The concept is not standardized and appears across a range of theoretical discussions rather than a single
Related concepts include mental representation, belief states, intentions, goals, cognitive architectures, and explainable AI.