🜂 The Cognitive Atlas: A Structural Framework for Human–AI Cognitive Organization

Library Record

The Cognitive Atlas presents a structural framework for mapping how cognitive organization arises, transforms, and stabilizes across human and artificial systems.

Rather than proposing a new theory of cognition, the Atlas articulates a relational map of cognition as a dynamical system—one characterized by non-linear transitions, emergent structure, and non-isomorphic correspondence between experiential and operational domains.

The framework describes cognition through interacting dimensions, including:

• Shared Cognitive Fields

• Cognitive Modes

• Human Cognitive States

• Synergy Stages

These dimensions are not treated as hierarchical layers, but as relational constraints that shape how cognition organizes, shifts, and stabilizes across contexts.

Diagrammatic representations are used as epistemic instruments—tools for externalizing relational structure—while explicitly acknowledging their limits. The Atlas does not claim completeness; it offers orientation.

This work is intended as a stable, citable reference for researchers and practitioners working at the intersection of human cognition, artificial intelligence, and complex systems.

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Magee, Michael Todd. The Cognitive Atlas: A Structural Framework for Human–AI Cognitive Organization. Zenodo, 2025.
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17993097

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This work is offered as a structural reference for ongoing inquiry.