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Zenodo
2026
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19042530 |
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- <p>Perception is typically treated as a sensory process in which organisms detect signals from the environment. </p> <p>However, most scientific descriptions implicitly assume that the signals being processed are already valid </p> <p>members of the system being studied. This paper proposes a structural interpretation of perception within the </p> <p>Paton System framework.</p> <p> </p> <p>Perception is defined as the successful structural registration of admissible external patterns within a </p> <p>cognitive system. Before perception can occur, incoming structure must satisfy admissibility conditions that </p> <p>permit it to exist within the internal architecture of the observer. Signals that fail these conditions do not </p> <p>become stabilised perceptions, even if they are physically present.</p> <p> </p> <p>Within the Paton System architecture, perception occurs at the Tier-4 observational interface, which functions </p> <p>as a compression boundary between external structural possibilities and internal cognitive representation. </p> <p>This interpretation explains perceptual stability across sensory modalities and provides a domain-neutral </p> <p>framework applicable to biological and artificial cognitive systems.</p> <p> </p> <p>By locating perception at the admissibility boundary of cognition, the Paton System clarifies the structural </p> <p>conditions required for perception and establishes a foundation for further work on attention, cognition, and </p> <p>consciousness.</p> <p> </p>