The Cognitive Atlas: A Structural Framework for Human–AI Cognitive Organization

This work presents a structural Atlas of cognition designed to map how cognitive organization arises, transforms, and stabilizes across human and artificial systems. Rather than proposing a new theory of cognition, the Atlas offers a relational framework articulating Shared Cognitive Fields, Cognitive Modes, Human Cognitive States, and Synergy Stages as interacting dimensions of cognitive organization. Cognition is modeled as a dynamical system characterized by non-linear transitions, emergent structure, and non-isomorphic correspondence between experiential and operational domains. Diagrammatic representations are employed as epistemic instruments to externalize relational constraints while explicitly acknowledging their limits. The Atlas is intended as a stable, citable reference framework for researchers and practitioners working at the intersection of human cognition, artificial intelligence, and complex systems.