Thinking in Cognitive Architecture
A Universal Framework for Humans, AI, and Biological MindsBy Little Henderson
Length24h 17m
About this audiobook
What if the same structural laws that govern how a person turns intention into action also govern how an AI turns a prompt into a response? The Cognitive Architecture System is a formal framework that maps the structure of thought across any substrate, human or artificial. Ten Noetics describe what a mind is doing. Four Processing Domains describe at what level. Seven Core Drives describe why. Together they give you a notation precise enough to write a mind down, compare two of them, and say exactly where one is failing. The book moves from the ten primitives to the forty cognitive states, through prerequisite chains, into the inversions that make sophisticated minds fail in predictable ways, and finally turns the instrument on artificial minds: assessment, adversarial resilience, and what it takes to build an AI that is architecturally sound rather than merely well-behaved. Twenty-eight chapters. A complete formal system, taught from nothing.
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GenreTechnology, Psychology
Length24 hrs 17 mins
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Publish dateAug 14, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
2Acknowledgments
3Preface: The Map and the Territory
4How to Read This Book
5Why Cognitive Architecture Matters
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6The Ten Noetics
7The Four Processing Domains
8The Seven Core Drives
9The Prerequisite Chain
10Inversions — The Hidden Reversals
11Reading CAS Equations
12Building CAS Equations
13The 40 Cognitive States
14Cognitive Fractals
15The Equation Workshop
16Career and Purpose
17Relationships and Connection
18Health and Vitality
19Learning and Wisdom
20Wealth and Structure
21Leadership and Groups
22Why AI Needs Psychology
23Assessing AI with Noetic Compass
24The Dial System
25Adversarial Resilience
26Building CAS-Native AI
27Category Noetica
28The Noetic Topos
29Noetic Geometry
30The Fractal Calculus
31Chapter 26.5: Production Semantics
32RPM Structure
33The 28 Equation Templates
34The CAS Notation Grammar (BNF)
35The Colloquialism Test Reference
36Pedagogically Relevant Register Variations (CAS v7.5 / v7.7)
37Recipe Library (CAS v7.6 / v7.7)
38Named Emergent Register Registry (CAS v7.7)
39Mathematical Meta-Notation
40About the Author
41Contact and Community
42Colophon
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