Cognitive Physics
Identity
Cognitive Physics defines cognition as a physical system, not as a mental faculty, belief structure, or information-processing metaphor.
It studies cognition as motion, state transition, and constraint within an internal system, governed by lawful behavior rather than subjective interpretation.
What This Physics Addresses
Cognitive Physics focuses on:
- how cognitive states form, persist, and dissolve
- how thought moves under load, latency, and coherence
- how reasoning changes shape under internal pressure
- how cognition behaves when decoupled from emotion and body assumptions
Cognition here is not treated as intelligence, awareness, or decision-making.
It is treated as system behavior.
What This Physics Is Not
Cognitive Physics does not:
- explain psychology
- model intelligence
- simulate reasoning
- optimize thinking
- map cognition to AI architectures
Those approaches operate on representations.
Cognitive Physics operates on structure.
Relationship to Emotional Physics
Cognitive Physics does not precede Emotional Physics.
It emerges after emotional motion stabilizes.
Cognitive behavior is shaped, constrained, and redirected by emotional dynamics.
This ordering is intentional and non-negotiable.
Relationship to Somatic Physics
Cognition is influenced by somatic signals but is not reducible to them.
Somatic Physics governs physical signal propagation.
Cognitive Physics governs interpretive motion under constraint.
They remain distinct.
Status
This field is declared and active.
Formal articulation will appear as the system stabilizes, not by acceleration or demand.
What emerges here will surface when it is structurally required.