---
aliases: {}
concept_id: factored_cognition
preferred:
  en: factored cognition
relations:
  relations:
    related:
    - iterated_amplification
    - process_supervision
status: active
---

# factored cognition

An approach to reasoning and scalable deliberation that decomposes sophisticated cognitive work into many small, mostly independent, human-understandable subtasks whose answers can be combined, so individual steps can be performed or supervised without requiring the full problem-solving process to occur in one opaque computation.

## related

- [iterated amplification](../terminology/iterated_amplification.txt)
- [process supervision](../terminology/process_supervision.txt)

[Corpus index](../index.txt)