Knowing without Experiencing: A Non-Experiential Structural Cognition Model of a Creator
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) July 16, 2026 Furkan Arikan
A creator could lack subjective feelings and emotions yet still have complete structural knowledge of all possible and actual realities. This article develops the Non-Experiential Structural Cognition Model (NESCM), which describes a creator as a noetic source that directly cognizes structures, causes, and consequences without experiencing phenomenal states. The creator exercises analogical agency, relates to an open future with graded freedom, and does not intervene in natural order. Possible worlds are compared through criteria like coherence, viability, resilience, and diversity. The model offers an alternative to anthropomorphic theism while acknowledging its own limitations regarding non-phenomenal agency, objective probability, and relational change.