endogeneity-in-cognition

This chapter explores the deep connection between Kantian philosophy and biological morphology, particularly how Kant’s concept of spatial orientation and rationality is grounded in the bilateral symmetry and chirality of the human body, especially the spine and hands. It argues that cognition and knowledge arise from endogenous self-relation and closure, paralleling nervous system function and discursive rationality as forms of infolding or enclosure that generate internal criteria for experience and knowledge. The chapter situates this process within an aeonic evolutionary framework, tracing the origins of representational systems and orientation back to the emergence of nervous architectures around 600 million years ago.