From Syllogism to Statistical Inference:Machine Learning as Epistemological Rupture and theFuture of Human Cognitive Evolution
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epistemological inversion, machine learning and human cognition, extended mind theory, evolutionary epistemology, cognitive offloading, epistemic identity, AI-integrated cognitionAbstract
For nearly three millennia, Western epistemology has framed human knowledge as a rational, intentional, and structurally ordered process — from Aristotle’s syllogistic logic through Kant’s constitutive categories of understanding (Bond, 2021; Russon, 2016). This paper argues that the emergence of machine learning constitutes a fundamental epistemological rupture with that tradition rather than an extension of it. Where classical knowing moves from principles to conclusions through intentional, phenomenologically grounded processes, machine learning moves from data to emergent pattern through procedures that are non-intentional, phenomenologically empty, and in significant measure opaque (Barelli et al., 2024; Lykhatskyi, 2025). This structural inversion is not a deficiency of machine learning — it is a philosophically significant divergence that the classical tradition lacks the conceptual vocabulary to evaluate and that demands new integrative frameworks to understand. Drawing on extended mind theory, cognitive offloading research, and evolutionary epistemology, this paper develops such a framework, arguing that machine learning represents the most consequential instance of cognitive extension in human intellectual history — and the first to introduce systemic opacity into the extended human cognitive system. This opacity extension generates specific behavioral vulnerabilities, including automation bias, skill atrophy, and epistemic dependence that are structural properties of the human-AI cognitive relationship rather than correctable traits of individual users (Natali et al., 2025; Zerilli et al., 2019). The paper further argues, through an evolutionary-epistemology lens, that the current moment of AI integration constitutes a transition point in the adaptive history of human cognitive ecology whose long-term consequences for epistemic identity, collective knowledge-making, and human cognitive development remain critically undertheorized. This paper employs a philosophical-psychological conceptual synthesis methodology, integrating philosophy of mind, cognitive science, behavioral research, and educational literature. The paper concludes with recommendations for research, educational design, and institutional governance, calibrated to the structural properties of AI-integrated cognition.
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