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Autor principal: Shipkowski, James
Format: Recurso digital
Idioma:anglès
Publicat: Zenodo 2026
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Accés en línia:https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18460970
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  • <p>This note presents a structural clarification of the dependency between existence and cognition. It distinguishes epistemic evidence of being from the conditions required for any process to occur. While classical formulations such as <em>cogito, ergo sum</em> correctly establish thought as evidence of existence from a first-person standpoint, they risk obscuring a deeper ordering: thought is neither necessary for, nor constitutive of, existence.</p> <p>Existence is treated minimally as persistence under transformation. Within this framework, cognition is understood as a contingent, emergent process that may arise when continued persistence requires adaptive change. The formulation “I am, therefore thought occurs” is introduced strictly as a clarification of structural dependency, not as a metaphysical claim or proof.</p> <p>The note is non-teleological, non-epistemic, and non-metaphysical in scope, and is intended to constrain common category errors concerning being, thought, observers, and foundations.</p>