Cognitive Drift and Co-Cognition
Cognitive Drift describes how a person’s models, judgments, or attention can become progressively less aligned with the conditions they are meant to navigate. Co-Cognition describes how thought develops through recursive exchanges between people and external systems. These documents define both concepts, explain their relationship, and provide practical methods for examining AI-mediated thought.
What Is Co-Cognition? (PDF)
A concise introduction to thought distributed across human and external-system feedback loops.
Co-Cognition Framework Overview (PDF)
A structural reference defining the process, boundaries, analytic vocabulary, and conditions of bounded Co-Cognition.
AI-Mediated Cognition Field Guide (PDF)
A practical guide to how AI enters thought, memory, interpretation, writing, and judgment.
Co-Cognition and Cognitive Drift (PDF)
An explanation of how distributed thought can remain grounded or become a pathway to Cognitive Drift.