Locke Without Metaphysics: Why Cognition is a Structural Inevitability

Kriger B.
2026.
Locke Without Metaphysics: Cognition as Constraints of Complex Systems.
IIIR Epistemology Evidence-Based Philosophy.
In this video we dive into Boris Krigers groundbreaking paper Locke Without Metaphysics: Cognition as Constraints of Complex Systems .
We explore how classical epistemologywhich spent three and a half centuries struggling to answer how the mind acquires knowledgewas asking the wrong question by presupposing a false division between the mind and the external world . Instead we examine cognition through the lens of physics and complex systems.
We break down the Dual-Pressure Convergence Theorem which proves that predictive cognition is not merely an evolutionary adaptation but a structural inevitability.
Any viable system must predict the future to avoid extinction due to two independent physical facts: finite signal speed temporal pressure and finite channel capacity informational pressure . We also revisit the philosophy of John Locke.
While Locke correctly intuited that knowledge is an interactive self-correcting process rather than a static possession his profound insights were trapped in an inadequate 17th-century vocabulary .
This video translates Lockes concepts into the modern language of complex systems and predictive processing: Experience is redescribed as prediction error minimizationthe continuous comparison of predictions with signals to reduce discrepancy . Ideas are not eternal Platonic forms or independent mental objects but states of generative models continuously updated to reduce surprise . Memory is not a passive recording but a reconstructive process and a prior that can sometimes become miscalibrated . Natural Rights life liberty property are redescribed as vital viability constraints necessary for the survival of a collective social system . Finally we explore how this predictive framework naturally dissolves centuries-old philosophical dilemmas proving that David Humes problem of induction is simply gradient descent on prediction error extended over time and that the Cartesian problem of the external world is ill-posed because our minds are dynamically coupled to our environments not isolated from them Kriger B.
2026.
Locke Without Metaphysics: Cognition as Constraints of Complex Systems.
IIIR Epistemology Evidence-Based Philosophy.

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