[ Abstract ]
This work presents a geometric framework for cognition, centered on a conceptual polytope, the Polynon, to explore consciousness and its relationship with physical reality. Adopting an analytic idealist view, the Polynon posits consciousness as the foundational element of existence, preceding physical phenomena. A polynonial mechanism is introduced, offering a geometric and ontological interpretation of consciousness, where both reality and the observer unfold as holographic projections. This framework maps consciousness by analyzing epistemological interactions among phenomena (sensory experience), phantasiai (internal representations), and noumena (underlying reality). Cognitive gravity and gradients provide metrics for cognitive dimensions, while a continuum of perceptual dimensions is proposed, with the wavefunction in superposition linking the observer’s cognition to hidden physical realities. This model connects cognition to reality’s structure, proposing a new mechanism for the observer’s measurement.
[ Keywords ]
Consciousness, Hologram, Cognitive Gravity, Noumena, Wavefunction, Observer, Reality
[ Abstract ]
Gravity, the most immediate condition of embodiment, resists integration with quantum theory, pointing to a deeper epistemological fracture. This dissonance is used here as argument for a cognitive interpretation of reality, where gravity is a structuring principle of perception. In this framework, geometric cognition plays a central role, with the mind arranging information spatially through embedded and embodied topologies. Thus, cognitive gravity is proposed to model how experience is organized, and how memory, language, and truth are shaped by gravitational dynamics that stabilize within a manifold of perception and consciousness.
[ Keywords ]
Cognitive Gravity, Consciousness, Observer, Noumena, Perception, Cognitive Relativity, Reality Construction, Phentropy, Manifold
[ Abstract ]
Contemporary models of perception and cognition remain grounded in empirical materialism or dualist metaphysics, often reducing consciousness to emergent neural states. However, these models struggle to account for phenomena such as self-awareness, perceptual coherence, and the structural limits of observation. While systems theory and quantum analogies offer partial insights, they lack a foundational ontology that explains how experience emerges from non-observable structure. Noumenal Ontology proposes a minimal axiomatic framework in which cognition emerges as a construct between consciousness and its self-reflective function, the observer. Perception is modeled as torsional recursion over a noumenal torus, where cognitive structures arise as phase-based geometries. This approach offers a conceptual bridge between metaphysics, cognitive science, and quantum structures through a unified, non-dual ontology of perception.
[ Keywords ]
Consciousness, Ontology, Noumena, Perception, Manifold, Geometric Cognition