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| author | Stegemann, Wolfgang |
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| contents | <p>This article develops the thesis that the major cultural constructions of humanity (religion, esotericism, art, science) result from a structural discrepancy between cognitive processing capacity and available sensory inputs. While cognitive systems with low neural complexity can operate largely reactively to sensory data, significant surplus capacity necessitates constructive processing beyond the given. These constructions differ not in their cognitive source, but in their methodological constraints: religion dogmatizes its constructions, art makes them explicit as such, science organizes them under conditions of falsifiability. The thesis is developed as a heuristic principle that makes disparate cultural phenomena comprehensible under a unified perspective and is categorially specified to avoid confusions between structural, functional, and phenomenal levels of description.</p> |
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| spellingShingle | Cognitive Surplus Capacity as the Foundation of Cultural Construction Stegemann, Wolfgang <p>This article develops the thesis that the major cultural constructions of humanity (religion, esotericism, art, science) result from a structural discrepancy between cognitive processing capacity and available sensory inputs. While cognitive systems with low neural complexity can operate largely reactively to sensory data, significant surplus capacity necessitates constructive processing beyond the given. These constructions differ not in their cognitive source, but in their methodological constraints: religion dogmatizes its constructions, art makes them explicit as such, science organizes them under conditions of falsifiability. The thesis is developed as a heuristic principle that makes disparate cultural phenomena comprehensible under a unified perspective and is categorially specified to avoid confusions between structural, functional, and phenomenal levels of description.</p> |
| title | Cognitive Surplus Capacity as the Foundation of Cultural Construction |
| url | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17999034 |