/cognitive-maps

A region where understanding grows

The shape proven by the data model, and the operating questions still open — shown from one running example.

What it's for

Our work on theory ends on a hard claim — the system does not store knowledge; it stores data and the traces of acts, and computes projections so that a perspective engaging them can produce knowledge. A cognitive map is where that production is given a home and a direction. Compressed to a sentence:

Temper is an event-sourced coordination substrate whose organizing purpose is to be economical with attention. A cognitive map is a telos-seeded region of that substrate where humans and agents grow a shared, situated understanding together — and everything else is a projection over it.

The rest of this set is that sentence, working.

One running example, shown from the schema — and where it leads: up to theory, out to operating

SHOWN FROM THE SCHEMAREACHED BY ASCENT · THEORYAN INVITATION · OPERATINGstart herewhat a map isthe substratewhat lives in ithow it growshow maps relatewhat's visibletheoryontologyperspectivesoperating Temper