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How to ThinkIn the Age of AI
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Enumerate all cognitive agents in your system, identify what

Enumerate all cognitive agents in your system, identify what each consumes and produces, and draw directed edges from producers to consumers to make dependency structure explicit and debuggable.

Why This Is a Principle

This derives from Extended Cognition Thesis (distributed cognition), Schemas as Knowledge Organization Structures (schemas organize knowledge), and The behavior of a system arises from its structure… (system behavior arises from structure). It prescribes building a dependency graph to make coordination structure visible—general systems design principle applicable to any multi-agent architecture.