The Five Tasks Model of Cognition

The Five Tasks Model of Cognition DOI defines a theoretical framework in which cognition across biological and artificial systems is organized around five irreducible domains of informational control. Within this framework, organisms detect informational events DOI, structure them into informational tasks DOI through domain recognition, and regulate behavior change (B1→B2) DOI under the constraints of the Energy–Safety–Reproduction (ESR) triad DOI. The model proposes that cognition is not an unlimited collection of processes, but a structured architecture in which environmental variation is interpreted through five recurrent task domains: Binary Environmental Control, Distal Engagement Control,…