The Esoteric Level of Cog Sci = Loose Cog Sci = Mental Construct Processing = Cog Phen’y
My version of Cog Sci is like esotericism; the good stuff; the real deal. Actual Cog Sci. Mental Constructs (anything that’s presented to awareness). Mental construct processing.
The Exoteric Level of Cog Sci = Neuroreductionism = Neuroscience Pretending to Be Cog Sci & Cog Phenomenology
Fake, reductionist, cargo-cult, neuroreductionism, as in:
The assumptions of the cognitive sciences—that there is no distinction between mind and brain,
Luther H. Martin, Studies in Hellenistic Religions (2018)
They say the magic word “Cognitive” and then instantly switch & downshift exclusively to the Neuroscience level, never having even really touched base with the actual cognitive level.
They wouldn’t know Cognitive if it bit them in the azz.
These mental children, lacking any abstraction ability, only can mentally handle rocks and neurons.
Put in cognition as input to them, and you get output: rocks and neurons, all the Cognitive got instantly dropped right at the input.
Insert mushroom esotericism art imagery, the output = distorted Italian pine tree, in a “naturalistic” reading (Thomas Hatsis, reacting against John Rush’s assertion that mushroom religious art requires non-naturalistic reading).
The Egodeath theory 