Traditional Northern and Western (European-centric) thought regarding cognitive and sensory phenomena operates within Anthropocentric Representationalism, an ontological framework premised on the generation of (mostly visual) representations tuned to a human-shaped rationale.
This paradigm positions the imagistic model as a universal biological baseline, functioning effectively as a localized cultural and historical artifact.
Parallel to this, multiple distinct cognitive architectures exist.
One such architecture functions as a comprehensive ontological unfolding of reality sensing, conceptual processing, and philosophical participation.
This architecture constitutes an autonomous way of apprehending existence, affirming that existence encompasses diverse structural methods of engaging with the environment.
The sensing phase of this specific architecture, which we can exemplify in terms contained in Object Orientation Agnosia and Topological Agnosia descriptions, utilizes kinematic and topological perception.
It is crucial to distinguish that while the underlying reality itself remains as a potentially unnamable, unattainable absolute, this cognitive architecture gathers that reality as a mesh of networks of potential energies, fluid continuities, and vectors of force, setting the foundation for a systemic cognitive process.
In this mode of environmental sensory stimuli reception, an object’s orientation and properties (front/back, up/down, temperature, taste, odor, texture, etc) manifests simultaneously with its vector of action, establishing identity as a kinetic event tied directly to its movement, with multiple possible forces coexisting in stacking or merging forms.
Within this framework, the concept of a static state is an abstract, but unattainable in nature, in the physical universe, nothing is ever truly still.
La percepción kinética se extiende más allá de la locomoción macroscópica para abarcar micro-vibraciones y actividad termodinámica.
Kinematic perception extends beyond macro-locomotion to encompass micro-vibrations and thermodynamic activity. Non-perceptive or subtle movements remain movements; sensory events such as texture, heat, sound, taste, and smell are fundamentally the processing of particles and molecules in motion
Thus, encountering a seemingly stationary object still constitutes the reception of a kinetic event.
Similarly, spatial and container boundaries (inside/outside, continent/contained) emerge as continuous, relational overlapping fields where contingencies and thresholds remain dynamic, plural, and capable of coexistence.
This architecture does not reject relational monism but does reject the concept of a vacuum. An entity cannot be defined in isolation because existence is inextricably bound to interaction.
Matter exists as energy and waves constantly interacting with other matter. The relationship itself is the foundational property of identity.
Following this kinematic and topological sensing, the processing, development, and manipulation of concepts can occur as best described through the definition of spectrums such as of aphantasia and hypophantasia (and other perceptual processing "alterations").
Operating on a logic of systems, relations, contingencies, and material behaviors, this processing architecture structures reality through networks of agency and interaction.
Abstract concepts arise as dynamic phenomena. Aphantasic thought maps the world through the mechanics of change and its environmental impact, organizing fluid perceptual sensing into rigorous, object and result-oriented frameworks. These results not driven by teleological intent, but rather the emergence derived from recognizing patterns in entropic fluctuations.
As a system's entropic index fluctuates through iterations and folds over itself, it provides a range of possible results. The cognitive architecture maps these recurring mechanical outcomes as results, allowing for the functional recognition of objects and processes without permanently partitioning the underlying fluid reality.
The conceptual imagination synthesizes variables, tracks entropy, and analyzes structural contingencies, transforming raw kinetic and topological sensory stimuli into complex webs of behavioral mechanics.
It bears highlighting that we're calling them kinetic and topological for the purpose of this article, in an effort to establish the framework, but they are not inherently or exclusively so.
This continuous ontology engagement, from kinematic sensing to non-anthropocentric systemic sensing, processing and cognitive development, is found in some individuals who are often diagnosed as alterations to the norm, instead of categorized as operating with a different ontological architecture.
This ontological configuration finds philosophical articulation and participation within animistic and Daoist frameworks.
In animistic ontologies, a "person" or entity exists through the capacity to interact with the agency of the environment and sustain relationships within a system, mirroring the focus on mechanical footprints and behavioral consequences.
Simultaneously, the topological fluidity of the sensing phase aligns with Daoist principles, particularly the concept of Pu (the uncarved block), which approaches reality as a state of pure potentiality and seamless environmental integration.
By analyzing massive concepts like time, divinity, happiness, god, or freedom, through their tangents, ramifications, and vectors of force, this cognitive architecture cultivates a fecund, process-oriented spiritual and intellectual engagement.
It stands as a model of reality, generating meaning by moving in unpartitioned resonance with the forces that transform the world.
