https://conten.to/tags/cognition/ Recent content in Cognition on conten.to Hugo en-us Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2026/05/06/ Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2026/05/06/ Every time I re-read Borges I cannot dodge the bullet. 'Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius' is not a fantasy story. It is a documentary about how human reality actually works. Civilization is a miracle built out of coordinated fictions — and the people who understand the mechanism most clearly tend to become either novelists or tyrants.