
Sowa's contribution to cognitive science
John Sowa significantly advanced cognitive science by developing a formal framework called conceptual graphs, which visually represent how ideas and knowledge are organized and interconnected in the mind. His work bridges linguistics, logic, and artificial intelligence, helping to model human reasoning and understanding more precisely. By providing a clear, logical structure for complex information, Sowa's contributions facilitate better communication between humans and machines, improving artificial intelligence systems, natural language processing, and knowledge representation. His work helps us better understand how we think, reason, and process information.