This is a beautifully constructed piece and I found myself recognizing many of the same fault lines and convergence points I’ve been working through in my own framework. Much of what you’re circling here are gaps I’ve been actively modeling, particularly the symbolic systems that mediate cognition across narrative, embodiment, and layered context.
It also brought Social Ecology Theory sharply back into focus for me. I hadn’t fully realized how much of my work has been operating within that structure until now. I’ve been calling it Cognitive Convergence, and your piece helped surface just how aligned some of these threads are.
Ditto. So many avenues to explore and even current models allow us to not just peek round corners but bring what’s round those corners into our thinking trajectories. It’s mind boggling how much acces we now have to cross- discipline thinking and synthesis of ideas
Hello Allison! Thank you for your kind words and I'm glad that there was some useful content in the article for you to use creatively in you own studies. I have been thinking a lot about how AI is continuing to unseat our basic assumptions about cognition in general, as well as to redefine the idea of consciousness, emotion, spirituality and many other parts of what heretofore has been exclusive to humans. Please feel free to read and comment on any of my previous articles at https://fractalize.substack.com/. I would love to hear your thoughts. Thanks again.
This is a beautifully constructed piece and I found myself recognizing many of the same fault lines and convergence points I’ve been working through in my own framework. Much of what you’re circling here are gaps I’ve been actively modeling, particularly the symbolic systems that mediate cognition across narrative, embodiment, and layered context.
It also brought Social Ecology Theory sharply back into focus for me. I hadn’t fully realized how much of my work has been operating within that structure until now. I’ve been calling it Cognitive Convergence, and your piece helped surface just how aligned some of these threads are.
Really glad I came across this.
Ditto. So many avenues to explore and even current models allow us to not just peek round corners but bring what’s round those corners into our thinking trajectories. It’s mind boggling how much acces we now have to cross- discipline thinking and synthesis of ideas
Hello Allison! Thank you for your kind words and I'm glad that there was some useful content in the article for you to use creatively in you own studies. I have been thinking a lot about how AI is continuing to unseat our basic assumptions about cognition in general, as well as to redefine the idea of consciousness, emotion, spirituality and many other parts of what heretofore has been exclusive to humans. Please feel free to read and comment on any of my previous articles at https://fractalize.substack.com/. I would love to hear your thoughts. Thanks again.