The Human Game Dimensional Metaphysics
Human perception operates within dimensional constraints that determine how we observe, interpret, and engage with reality. These constraints are structural, not psychological, and they propagate across every domain of human activity: how we perceive time, how we process conflict, and how we build artificial intelligence.
The Human Game: A Dimensional Metaphysics of Reality, Story, and the Resolution of Conflict (Burk 2026a) establishes this first-order metaphysical framework. Three research programs extend the dimensional architecture into applied domains:
Temporal Research — The dimensional structure of time and its implications for forecasting, physics, and consciousness.
Human Game Research — Dimensional models of cognition, conflict, and interpersonal navigation.
Artificial Intelligence Research — The dimensional constraints on machine cognition and the structural boundaries of artificial intelligence.
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Time performs two structurally independent functions in human cognition: orientation (sequential position) and measurement (the temporal organization of phenomena). The calendar and the clock serve both functions simultaneously, producing a cognitive collapse that treats them as inseparable. Temporal Research recovers the two functions and identifies what time parameterizes at each of three dimensional scopes.
Data Science — The structural ceiling on univariate forecasting and the Temporal Structural Forecasting methodology.
Quantum Physics — The anomalous status of time in foundational physics and the dimensional re-identification.
Consciousness Studies — Temporal experience and consciousness at the highest derived scope.
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The foundational monograph, The Human Game: A Dimensional Metaphysics of Reality, Story, and the Resolution of Conflict (Burk 2026a), establishes a dimensional architecture of human cognition, conflict, and narrative. Human Game Research applies that architecture to specific domains: the structural taxonomy of matrix and model architectures, the failure of behavioral analytical research, the Shame and Cult Matrices, and philosophy of medicine, law, economics, education, and history.
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AI is a completely accurate projection of human cognition, including the features routinely identified as errors. Hallucination, laziness, and unjustified confidence are structural inevitabilities of the cognitive operation AI performs, not engineering failures awaiting correction. A three-paper series develops the Description, Diagnosis, and Prescription for machine cognition within the dimensional architecture.