I Think I Found the Unit of Cognition. | The Autistic Leader Podcast

I noticed a pattern in my work with Claude Opus that I didn't design and can't stop thinking about.The moment I finish fully processing a complex problem is almost exactly the moment the AI's context window runs out. Same unit of work. Same completion point. Every time.Most people hit that limit and feel interrupted. I hit it and I'm done.In this episode I walk through the observation, the three bodies of research that give it structural grounding — Miller's chunks, neural oscillations, and Friston's work on autistic precision — and the design question almost no organization is currently asking.This isn't a claim that autistic cognition is superior, or that AI thinks like a human. It's a structural observation: two systems built through entirely different processes, arriving at the same unit of cognition.And that has implications for how organizations should think about the cognitive architectures they're building around.Full essay: theautisticleader.ai