Rey, Philip: Cognitive Homology Needs a Trajectory: Active Memory Engineering as the Fourth Dimension of Cognitive Ontology

Krickel and Goddu propose a developmental account of cognitive ontology built around the notion of homology — cognitive categories should be individuated, on their account, the way biological categories are: by tracking continuities of underlying generative mechanisms across brain, behavior, and environment. Their proposal extends Khalidi's (2023) influential work on cognitive ontology by importing a methodologically rigorous criterion from evolutionary-developmental biology. This commentary arg