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Perspective, Continuity, and Reconstruction: A Structural Philosophy of Cognition Under Admissibility Constraints

Paton, Andrew John
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This paper proposes a structural interpretation of cognition in which observation, memory, communication, and self-reconstruction operate through admissible continuity formation rather than direct recovery of objective totality. Within this framework, cognition does not access reality as a complete universal structure. Instead, it reconstructs bounded continuities relative to the observer’s available perspective, recursive history, salience weighting, developmental scale, and admissible interpretive structures. The paper develops a philosophy-of-science interpretation of cognition grounded in recursive reconstruction, continuity preservation, temporal traversal, and perspective-relative admissibility. The resulting framework attempts to explain why observers frequently reconstruct the same environments differently, why memory and salience vary across developmental and contextual conditions, why communication succeeds or fails depending upon structural compatibility, and why cognition appears to preserve continuity despite incomplete informational access. Particular attention is given to recursive continuity reconstruction, observer-conditioned admissibility, temporal scaling behaviour, recursive weighting, communication convergence, and perspective-bounded observation. The paper further argues that cognition may function less as passive recovery of static information and more as active reconstruction of admissible continuities under bounded recursive constraints. Rather than proposing a neuroscientific or clinical model, the paper operates primarily within philosophy of cognition, philosophy of science, and structural epistemology. The framework developed here is positioned as a continuity-based interpretive model consistent with the broader admissibility architecture of the Paton System. Notes: This paper develops a structural continuity-based interpretation of cognition grounded in admissibility, recursive reconstruction, and bounded observational perspective. The work is positioned within philosophy of cognition and philosophy of science rather than neuroscience or clinical psychology, and focuses primarily upon structural epistemology, observer-conditioned reconstruction, and continuity-based cognition under recursive admissibility constraints.
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