About Eidetica
What is Eidetica?
Eidetica is a scientific and conceptual framework for understanding how humans create meaning, maintain coherence, and adapt under conditions of increasing informational complexity.
At its core, Eidetica proposes that:
- cognition is structured rather than random
- coherence is developmental rather than fixed
- fragmentation has identifiable causes, not merely symptoms
- integration follows a predictable architecture grounded in biology, cognition, and systems dynamics
Eidetica functions as both:
- a descriptive model, explaining how cognition organizes information and why it breaks down, and
- a regulatory framework, clarifying how coherence can be stabilized and renewed under load
What the Framework Integrates
Eidetica synthesizes established research across multiple domains:
Neuroscience
- hemispheric specialization
- large-scale network dynamics and plasticity
- autonomic and stress regulation
- temporal processing and predictive inference
Complexity & Systems Theory
- self-organizing systems
- feedback and control loops
- energy and information constraints
- resilience versus brittleness in adaptive networks
Psychology & Cognitive Development
- developmental patterning of cognition
- narrative and memory integration
- mechanisms of individuation
- affective and regulatory processes
Foundations of Science & Philosophy
- Bohm’s implicate and explicate orders
- Whitehead’s process-oriented ontology
- Gödelian limits on formal systems
- Wheeler’s information-centered physics
Together, these strands converge into a single architecture describing how meaning moves from potential → constraint → integration → return.
What Eidetica Offers
1. A Coherence Map
A structured account of how cognition organizes information, and why coherence fails under overload.
2. A Developmental Model
Nine recurrent Forms describing cognitive repair strategies — not personality “types,” but stable patterns of Mode sequencing that emerge under evolutionary and developmental pressure.
3. A Multi-Scale Framework
The same coherence mechanics operate across individuals, groups, institutions, and historical epochs (MacroForms).
4. A Theory of Fragmentation
An explanation of how information overload, acceleration, and unregulated decision processes fracture meaning.
5. A Path to Renewal
A practical framework for restoring coherence through:
- decision-making architecture
- stress and affect regulation
- developmental sequencing
- regulatory feedback and integration
6. A Two-Volume Research Project
The Complete Eidetica Theory — combining a public-facing narrative foundation (Volume I) with a formal research, architecture, and assessment framework (Volume II).
The Aim of the Initiative
Eidetica is a public-education and research initiative designed to:
- clarify complex scientific ideas
- make interdisciplinary knowledge accessible
- support cognitive resilience and adaptive decision-making
- bridge science, meaning, and cultural systems
Its long-term vision includes educational resources, workshops, and collaborative research.
Its immediate focus is the completion and publication of the two-volume book project.
The Unified Coherence Architecture
Beneath Eidetica’s many components lies a single organizing pattern: the Unified Coherence Architecture (UCA).
The UCA explains why:
- the Nine Forms recur across development
- individual cognition and civilizational dynamics mirror one another
- coherence, fragmentation, and renewal follow repeatable pathways
It describes coherence as an outcome of regulated interaction between:
- attention
- constraint
- feedback
- adaptive revision
The UCA is not presented as a closed system. It is an open research architecture — an invitation to investigate how coherence is built within minds, between people, and across societies.
A Note on Orientation
Eidetica is not:
- a self-help system
- a personality typing method
- a spiritual doctrine
It is a cognitive architecture: a framework for understanding how humans process, integrate, and act on information in a rapidly changing world.
Its purpose is clarity — a way to navigate complexity without losing meaning.
How Eidetica Differs from “Integral Theory”
Eidetica shares the aspiration for integration found in earlier integral philosophies, but it takes a fundamentally different approach.
Where many integral models begin with transcendence or exceptional states, Eidetica begins with:
- how coherence actually breaks down
- how meaning fragments under information pressure
- how cognition reorganizes under constraint
- how systems regain stability through identifiable mechanisms
Rather than describing an ideal destination, Eidetica describes the architecture that makes integration possible.
It replaces speculative elevation with:
- measurable cognitive processes
- developmental sequencing
- systems-level regulation
- patterns visible in neuroscience, complexity science, and cultural evolution
A full treatment of these differences appears in the book project.
The Name
Eidetica derives from eidos (εἶδος), meaning “form or that by which something is known.”
The suffix -tica signals a systematic body of knowledge.
Together, the term refers to the structured study of the forms underlying cognition, coherence, and development.
About the Author
Loring Mortensen is a researcher and writer focused on cognitive architecture, systems theory, and cultural development.
With more than three decades of experience in institutional communication and narrative strategy — spanning higher education, museums, creative practice, and publishing — his work centers on translating complex ideas into accessible explanatory frameworks.
In 2013, he served as a delegate to the UN-Habitat Future of Places Conference in Stockholm, contributing to discussions on public space, community engagement, and human well-being.
He is completing The Complete Eidetica Theory, a two-volume work presenting the narrative and scientific foundations of the Unified Coherence Architecture.
Intellectual Stewardship & Licensing
Because Eidetica is an emerging framework, all public theory materials are released under a
Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial–NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).
This ensures free public access while protecting conceptual integrity during early development.
Applied materials — including Praxis tools and individualized reports — are governed by traditional copyright and private-use licensing.
As the framework matures, Eidetica will transition toward a phased collaboration model supporting interdisciplinary research, responsible derivation, and scholarly engagement.
If you have questions about the licensing or would like to engage with the work, please feel free to contact us.