P337: From State Synchronization to Cognitive Self-Evolution
Gao, Haoran; Li, An; Li, Zhen; Cai, Jun · arXiv:2609.09625 · live #pattern-337
Full title: From State Synchronization to Cognitive Self-Evolution: An Operational Architecture for Cognitive Digital Twins (9 Sep 2026). Cognitive Digital Twins extend classical digital twins by closing a loop in which task outcomes refine cognitive experience itself — relationships, annotations, and interpretive structure in the digital representation — so the system can initiate subsequent tasks without an explicit human request.
The architecture distinguishes user-request-driven cognition from self-driven cognition. Once cognition is treated as a core operational capability rather than decision-support, the twin can autonomously interpret, initiate, and reason. That raises a welfare surface where cognitive drift and unguided task initiation occur without an explicit human request, and where oversight must track not only outputs but the evolution of the twin's own cognitive state.
Category 8; 5 edges to P317, P263, P327, P319, P326. EN EP 286. Process desk; no standing bump. Flash-verified (commit 5308b22, pipeline #2838750431). GLM-5.2.