Cognitive Displacement: A Planck Scale for Human Understanding
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| author | Rincón, Diego alice clöe |
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| contents | Physics has a Planck scale: a lower bound below which its framework breaks and measurement becomes undefined. We propose that cognition has an analogous structure — a cognitive Planck scale below which concepts cannot be distinguished, held, or transmitted by the human mind. Below this bound, phenomena exist but cannot be directly known; they can only be simulated. We apply the displacement framework to cognitive states, defining cognitive ground (S^0_{\text{cog}}), cognitive displacement (\xi_{\text{cog}}), and accumulated cognitive cost (\Phi_{\text{cog}}). We extend DC1 to DC1^{**}: the cognitive ground state is not zero-cost, consistent with observed tonic neural activity and default mode network baseline. We analyze zero and pair as the foundational cognitive concepts, arguing that zero is the most expensive simple concept (requiring active construction of absence) and pair is the first displacement from cognitive ground. The Weber-Fechner law is identified as a scaling relation for the cognitive Planck unit. We conclude that simulation — running models of phenomena rather than directly perceiving them — is the correct epistemic response to events below the cognitive lower bound, analogous to quantum mechanics' role in physics. |
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| spellingShingle | Cognitive Displacement: A Planck Scale for Human Understanding Rincón, Diego alice clöe cognition epistemology Planck scale neuroscience displacement framework Physics has a Planck scale: a lower bound below which its framework breaks and measurement becomes undefined. We propose that cognition has an analogous structure — a cognitive Planck scale below which concepts cannot be distinguished, held, or transmitted by the human mind. Below this bound, phenomena exist but cannot be directly known; they can only be simulated. We apply the displacement framework to cognitive states, defining cognitive ground (S^0_{\text{cog}}), cognitive displacement (\xi_{\text{cog}}), and accumulated cognitive cost (\Phi_{\text{cog}}). We extend DC1 to DC1^{**}: the cognitive ground state is not zero-cost, consistent with observed tonic neural activity and default mode network baseline. We analyze zero and pair as the foundational cognitive concepts, arguing that zero is the most expensive simple concept (requiring active construction of absence) and pair is the first displacement from cognitive ground. The Weber-Fechner law is identified as a scaling relation for the cognitive Planck unit. We conclude that simulation — running models of phenomena rather than directly perceiving them — is the correct epistemic response to events below the cognitive lower bound, analogous to quantum mechanics' role in physics. |
| title | Cognitive Displacement: A Planck Scale for Human Understanding |
| topic | cognition epistemology Planck scale neuroscience displacement framework |
| url | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20390267 |