Dieu, Patrick-Olivier: From Finite Cognition to Representation Dynamics: A Clarification and Compression of a Research Program on Stabilization Under Constraints

This paper clarifies the conceptual and methodological evolution of a research program initially developed around finite cognition, epistemic limitation, and the structural conditions of intelligibility. The early stages of the program explored whether scientific knowledge should be understood not as direct access to reality, but as the stabilization of usable structures within finite cognitive systems. Initial formulations involved broad philosophical and epistemological questions concerning ma