Fable Built a 3D Model of Aristotle's Cognitive Architecture

Fable Built a 3D Model of Aristotle's Cognitive Architecture

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Loading cognitive architecture… Aristotle mapped the mind 2,300 years before cognitive science.

Peter Gärdenfors' conceptual spaces framework models concepts as geometry:

• Quality dimensions form domains
• Concepts are convex regions
• Typicality is distance from a prototype

This visualization places that framework in the middle of the Aristotelian-Thomistic cognitive hierarchy - formal reception through the senses below it, the immaterial intellect above it - showing how the classical psychology fills the two gaps the modern framework leaves open.

It is the interactive companion to the paper Beyond and Below Cognitive Space: A Framework for Perfecting Conceptual Spaces by Michael Mangialardi.

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