From Experience to Structure: An Abductive Systemic Framework for Understanding Living Systems and Its Implications for Artificial Intelligence

This paper is part of a broader research program dedicated to the structural analysis of complex and living systems, as outlined in the “Document Zero”. Contemporary approaches in cognitive science and artificial intelligence remain largely structured around hierarchical and representational models. While effective in specific domains, these approaches struggle to account for the dynamic, adaptive, and experiential nature of living systems. This work proposes an abductive and systemic framework aimed at bridging lived experience, cognitive structuring, and system-level dynamics. Based on longitudinal observation and iterative formalization, it identifies recurring structural patterns that can be interpreted across biological, cognitive, and social systems. Rather than introducing a domain-specific model, this framework provides a transdisciplinary conceptual lens for understanding how structures emerge from dynamic interactions. It emphasizes the co-evolution of experience, cognition, and systemic organization, and positions knowledge as a relational and constructivist process. This contribution constitutes an epistemological and conceptual foundation for subsequent developments within the research program, including formal models of distributed cognition and applications to artificial intelligence systems.