Reflexivity and cognitive limits

Human cognition represents a particular form of relational processing within the universe.

Scientific knowledge progressively increases the amount of information that can be extracted from observations.

However, any cognitive system possesses a finite capacity for processing information at a given moment.

As observational and theoretical descriptions become more precise, they approach a threshold where the quantity of information becomes difficult to integrate into coherent decisions or explanations.

This tension between increasing knowledge and finite processing capacity may represent a cognitive manifestation of the same structural limits that appear in physical descriptions.

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