Cognetics requires language precise enough to be tested and loose enough to be corrected.
The definitions below are working instruments. They do not acquire authority through publication alone.
The proposed research programme concerned with the architecture, engineering and governance of cognitive formation.
The process through which an intelligence acquires, organises, preserves, revises and governs the structures that shape future cognition.
Contact with an event that could inform future cognition.
An encounter that changes the organisation of future cognition.
The connection of an outcome to the cognition, decision or conduct that preceded it.
The entry of an attributed consequence into the structures shaping later cognition.
The continued availability and influence of a cognitive change across time.
The expression of a cognitive change beyond the case in which it was acquired.
A proposed measure of how often outcome-bearing exposures produce attributable, persistent and transferable changes in later cognition.
An organisation that influences what an intelligence notices, recalls, trusts, infers, judges or does.
The preservation of enough cognitive organisation for an intelligence to develop without repeatedly beginning again.
The historically informed conduct of cognition under uncertainty.
The distribution of authority over changes to future cognition.
The material, organisational or computational form through which an intelligence exists.