About Eidetica
What is Eidetica?
At its core, Eidetica proposes that:
- Cognition is structured rather than random.
- Coherence is developmental rather than fixed.
- Fragmentation has identifiable causes, not just symptoms.
- Integration follows a predictable architecture, rooted in both biology and symbolic cognition.
It is both a descriptive model (how cognition work) and a prescriptive one (how coherence can be restored).
What the Framework Integrates
Eidetica draws from established knowledge across several domains:
Neuroscience
- hemispheric specialization
- network dynamics and plasticity
- autonomic and stress regulation
- temporal processing and prediction
Complexity & Systems Theory
- self-organizing systems
- feedback loops
- energy/information constraints
- resilience vs. brittleness in networks
Psychology & Symbolic Cognition
- Structurally reinterpreted Jungian archetypes
- narrative meaning-making
- developmental patterns
- mechanisms of individuation
Philosophy & Foundations of Science
- Bohm’s implicate/explicate orders
- Whitehead’s process metaphysics
- Gödelian logical and informational limits
- Wheeler’s information-as-foundation
- coherence-based physics interpretations
These threads converge into a coherent architecture describing how meaning moves from potential → form → integration → return.
What Eidetica Offers
1. A Coherence Map
A structured understanding of how the mind organizes information and why it breaks down.
2. A Developmental Model
A nine-form cycle describing cognitive styles and evolutionary modes — not as “types,” but as recurring processes.
3. A Multi-Scale Perspective
The same mechanisms that shape individual development also shape societies and historical epochs (MacroForms).
4. A Theory of Fragmentation
Why information overload fractures meaning — and how refraction, resonance, and integration rebuild it.
5. A Path Back to Integration
A practical pathway for restoring coherence through:
- decision-making architecture
- stress integration
- cross-form collaboration
- symbolic tuning
- temporal reconstruction
6. A Two-Volume Book: The Complete Eidetica Theory
Explaining why meaning breaking down under the pressure of technological acceleration—and how coherence can be rebuild.
The Aim of the Initiative
Eidetica is more than an academic framework.
It is a public-education effort designed to:
- clarify complex scientific concepts
- make interdisciplinary knowledge accessible
- offer tools for personal and collective coherence
- support problem-solving in high-pressure environments
- bridge gaps between science, meaning, and culture
The long-term plan includes workshops, educational resources, and collaborative research. The immediate focus is the book.
The Unified Coherence Architecture
A simple pattern runs beneath Eidetica's many strands.
We call this the Unified Coherence Architecture (UCA).
The UCA explains why the Nine Forms, developmental trajectories, and historical phases echo one another. It suggests that coherence—personal or societal—arises from a recurring interplay of attention, constraint, and renewal. It shows how meaning is formed, how it fractures, and how it can be restored.
The UCA is not presented as a finished system but as an open invitation to keep asking better questions about how coherence is built within selves, 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 way of understanding how humans process, integrate, and act on information in a rapidly shifting world.
Its purpose is clarity—a map for navigating complexity without losing meaning.
The Name
Eidetica derives from eidos (εἶδος), meaning “form, essence, that by which something is seen or known.”
The suffix -tica echoes terms like mathematica and grammatica, signaling a coherent body of knowledge or practice or a systematic study of forms.
Together, Eidetica signifies a structured exploration of underlying forms — the architectures that govern cognition, coherence, and development.
About the Author
Loring Mortensen is a researcher and writer focused on the intersection of cognitive architecture, systems theory, and cultural development. With over three decades of experience in institutional communications and strategic narrative work—spanning higher education, the museum world, creative practice, aerospace, commercial photography, and publishing—he has focused on translating complex ideas into accessible frameworks. In 2013, he was one of 200 global delegates at the UN-Habitat Future of Places Conference in Stockholm, contributing to discussions on community engagement and the role of public space in human well-being.
His current project, Eidetica, integrates insights from psychology, evolutionary theory, complexity science, symbolic systems, and historical analysis into a single developmental model. The work examines how coherence is built and lost, how individuals navigate high-information environments, and how societies adapt during technological and cognitive transitions.
Mortensen’s work sits in the emerging tradition of symbolic integration—weaving patterns across disciplines to reveal underlying architectures of mind and culture. His current research centers on the Unified Coherence Architecture (UCA), an emerging theory designed to help individuals and communities cultivate resilience, clarity, and adaptive capacity in rapidly changing contexts.
He is completing The Complete Eidetica Theory, a two-volume work that lays out the narrative and technical foundations of the model.