I wrote a paper proposing a cognitive architecture called Sophia , based on a principle I call Recursive Cognitive Refinement (RCR) . The main idea is simple: instead of treating intelligence as a single pass from input to output, Sophia introduces a reflective sublayer that recursively refines intermediate semantic states through coherence checking, contextual synthesis, and memory-aware reinterpretation. In other words, the system does not just "process" information. It revis...