Cognitive Gravity: From Economic Model to Consciousness Architecture

Cognitive gravity has appeared across disciplines, each adapting the metaphor of gravitational pull to its own domain. In economics, it modeled trade flows as attraction shaped by mass and distance. In computational science, it became algorithmic, with information treated as mass clustering into data structures. In psychology and philosophy, it described the inertia of thought, where biases and memories anchor judgment, while organizational studies showed how accumulated success entrenches practices and inhibits innovation. Physics-inspired approaches extended the idea further, casting gravity as a structural analogue of consciousness or a unifying principle of mind and matter. Together, these uses suggest a shift toward a cognitive-first model, where gravity is understood as a principle intrinsic to experience itself. Evidence from geometric cognition, neurogeometry, and conceptual spaces are arguments in favour of the hidden geometry binding perception, memory, and meaning into coherent fields, offering the basis for a new science of mind grounded in structures long present but unrecognized.