Cognition, Science, and the Limits of Reality – Manifesto

This manifesto presents a framework connecting cognition, science, and reality, emphasizing the role of information stabilization in defining what can be known. Cognition is finite, emergent, and structured; it arises from stabilized physical and cellular networks and is constrained by replication, symbolic organization, and survival-driven architecture. Scientific theories formalize what cognition can stabilize, revealing the structured interface between observer and world rather than reality in itself. Amplification of cognition through technology or abstraction increases formal capacity but also exposes limits, where intelligibility fades. The framework introduces the Titan Lock, a conceptual boundary identifying minimal conditions for meaningful discourse. Reality is understood as a mille-feuille (layered, stratified structure); certain layers remain permanently inaccessible to any cognition. Science is thus not the conquest of reality, but the continuous refinement — and regulation — of the space of the intelligible.