Architecture of Ignorance

Abstract: Traditional epistemology treats ignorance as a deficit to be corrected. In contrast, the Architecture of Ignorance frames unknowing as structured, dynamic, and generative. Across cognitive, technological, and social systems, ignorance functions as a scaffold for emergent knowledge and adaptive behavior. This work introduces a formal model in which structured ignorance (U_t) recursively informs knowledge growth through a mapping function f(U_t), bridging philosophy, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence.

Keywords: structured ignorance, epistemology, artificial intelligence, recursive systems, knowledge architecture, media theory, artistic research, philosophy of technology, computational aesthetics, generative processes, conceptual art, cognitive structures, systems thinking.

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