ABC: A Foundational Epistemic Architecture for Human and Artificial Cognition

Abstract: ABC unifies emergent creativity, structural meaning formation, and deterministic functional ordering into a single epistemic architecture. By treating these traditions as sequential cognitive layers rather than competing worldviews, the model provides a general mechanism for how ideas arise, become meaningful, and transform into actionable knowledge. ABC functions as a transferable cognitive mechanics for AI systems, enabling stable reasoning, interpretability, and deterministic control.