Science Of Cognition
• The systematic study of how cognition interprets, structures, integrates, and realizes reality through perceptual, conceptual, and cognitive configurations.
Ontology (H&CT)
What is reality?
• The study of the nature and structure of reality and being.
• Different worldviews provide different ontological interpretations of reality.
• Ontology is primarily expressed through worldview.
Reality
This must come first because everything else relates cognition to reality.
• Reality-in-Itself
• Reality independent of interpretation through particular cognitive configurations.
Epistemology (H&CT)
How cognition knows reality.
• The study of how cognition knows and relates to reality through perception, concepts, and cognitive configurations.
• Epistemology is primarily expressed through tone, mood, cognition,
and cognitive configuration.
Perceptual Domain
Reality first appears through perceptual encounter.
• What is given.
• The domain of immediate experience.
Conceptual Domain
Now thinking enters.
• What thinking contributes.
• The domain of meanings and concepts.
Cognitive Connection
How cognition occurs.
• The active unification of percept and concept into cognition.
Cognition
Now the full structure becomes clear.
• The conscious activity through which percept and concept are united into meaningful reality.
Cognitive Differentiation
Cognitive Variation
This explains why multiple cognitive possibilities exist.
• The diversity of possible human cognitive configurations through tones, moods, and worldviews by which reality may be interpreted.
Cognitive Configuration
Now you explain why cognition differs among individuals and outlooks.
• A particular arrangement of tone, mood, and worldview through which cognition interprets reality.
Cognitive Distortion
Anthropomorphic
This introduces the general anthropomorphic principle.
• Human-centered interpretation of reality.
Standard Anthropomorphism
Begin with the common meaning first.
• Interpreting non-human reality through human traits and behaviors.
• Examples
◦ “Nature is angry.”
◦ “The universe wants balance.”
◦ “My car hates me.”
Anthropomorphic Limitation
This becomes the developmental problem of H&CT. It naturally leads into Cognitive Anthropomorphism and eventually Anthropomorphic Harmony.
• The limitation of cognition through fixation within one dominant tone, mood, or worldview configuration.
Cognitive Anthropomorphism (H&CT)
Now expand into the H&CT meaning.
• Interpreting reality through one’s dominant human cognitive configuration, treating human cognition as the measure of reality.
Examples:
◦ Reality is interpreted through Naturalistic–Empirical cognition: “Only what can be observed and measured is real.”
◦ Reality is interpreted through Logical–Idealist cognition: “Reality must ultimately conform to rational coherence.”
◦ Reality is interpreted through Volitional–Dynamist cognition: “Life is fundamentally struggle, force, and becoming.”
Cognitive Integration
Anthropomorphic Harmony
This explains how cognition becomes integrated.
• The conscious integration and harmonization of multiple cognitive configurations within human cognition.
Examples:
◦ “Empirical observation reveals one aspect of reality, logical cognition another, and mystical participation another; no single cognitive configuration exhausts reality.”
◦ “Political conflict often arises because people operate from different tones, moods, and worldviews rather than from simple ignorance or malice.”
◦ “I can enter empirical, logical, mystical, and volitional cognition consciously without becoming unconsciously possessed by any one of them.”
◦ “Human cognition becomes freer as it consciously experiences and harmonizes the spectrum of possible cognitive configurations.”
Developmental Epistemology
Cognitive Freedom
This explains how cognition becomes conscious and self-determining.
1. conscious awareness of percepts
2. conscious awareness of concepts
3. conscious cognitive connection between them
Now freedom naturally emerges from:
• integration,
• self-awareness,
• conscious cognition.
Culmination
Truth
Truth becomes the culmination of the system.
• The lawful coherence realized through the conscious relation of cognition and reality.
Truth should come last because it depends upon:
◦ reality,
◦ cognition,
◦ configurations,
◦ and freedom already being defined.
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