Cognitofication

The act of explaining all spiritual, religious, metaphysical, esoteric, mystical, paranormal, or supernatural experiences as products of delusion, psychosis, illusion, or deception. Cognitofication is common in hard‑narrow scientism, neo‑atheist circles, and strong‑restricted debunking communities. It dismisses visions as hallucinations, meditation insights as cognitive bias, and near‑death experiences as anoxia. It rarely engages with the content or meaning of these experiences, instead pathologizing or fraud‑accusing the experiencer. Critics argue it is a form of epistemic arrogance that mistakes its own materialist metaphysics for objective reality.

Cognitofication Example: “He cognitofied her mystical vision as ‘temporal lobe epilepsy’ and ignored the spiritual transformation, the ethical insights, and the cultural tradition that validated the experience. For him, it was just a brain glitch.”

Cognitofication by Abzugal June 5, 2026

Cognification

The reduction of all mental and social phenomena to cognitive processes—information processing, memory, attention, reasoning, problem‑solving. Cognification is common in AI, cognitive science, and some branches of psychology. It treats emotions as appraisals, culture as shared schemas, and society as distributed cognition. While less reductionist than neurofication, cognification still tends to ignore embodied, affective, and material dimensions. It also often assumes a universal model of cognition based on Western educated subjects. Critics call for situated, embodied, and extended approaches.

Cognification Example: “The cognification of love treats it as a set of cognitive appraisals, memory associations, and attachment schemas. It misses the sweaty palms, the butterflies, and the cultural scripts.”

Cognification by Abzugal June 5, 2026