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A theoretical framework arguing that human cognition—perception, memory, reasoning, categorization—constitutes the world we know. Our cognitive apparatus doesn’t simply mirror an external reality; it actively structures experience through innate frameworks, learned schemas, and embodied capacities. Drawing on cognitive science, neuroscience, and philosophy of mind, this theory posits that what we take as “the world” is always a world-for-us, shaped by the structure of our minds. Different cognitive architectures would produce different realities. This does not imply solipsism but that knowledge is always mediated by the knower’s cognitive constitution.
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