I found Tib Roibu through a LinkedIn post by Dan Mapes about cognitive gravity. Tib is a Romanian researcher who studies cognition through a geometric lens. Mark “Moose” McGrath and I asked him to walk us through his theory of mind, Polynon Theory.
Tib starts from the idea that thought has shape, and that the shape guides what we notice, believe and decide. In Polynon Theory, consciousness is primary and cognition unfolds in space in ways that can be measured. Tib charts a path between materialism and idealism, a geometry of mind that makes room for paradox and precision.
Cognitive gravity
Tib describes cognitive gravity as the force that pulls attention toward conceptual attractors. Meaning, emotion and decisions curve around those attractors. He places phenomena, fantasia and noumena as coordinates in one cognitive space, and he treats the observer as part of that space, a function of consciousness that reflects on itself.
Geometry and orientation
Tib connects his work to predictive processing, ecological psychology, conceptual spaces, cymatics and Eastern philosophy. He also sees uses in AI design that is aware of context. Orientation sits at the center of John Boyd’s real OODA loop. Tib’s geometry gives us another way to look at how orientation forms and how it shifts.
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