CogNarr (Cognitive Narrative) is an Ecosystem project developing infrastructure for facilitating group cognition at scale. It builds tools and frameworks that enable communities to coordinate shared understanding through structured narrative and cognitive scaffolding, with an initial focus on minimal viable incubation.
Overview
CogNarr develops infrastructure for collective sense-making — creating shared cognitive scaffolds that help groups coordinate attention, update beliefs, and maintain coherent action. The initial mission is a minimal viable incubation platform that can serve as a coordination layer for community cognition. The project is led by John Boik, a Research Fellow at the Institute, and continues ideas from his earlier work on societal-scale cognitive architectures, including Economic Direct Democracy.
Funding
CogNarr is currently unfunded. Donations to the Active Inference Institute earmarked for the CogNarr project help support its development; the project is envisioned as open source, with room for development partners and social investors.
Meetings and Activity
CogNarr holds regular project meetings visible in the Institute's activities calendar. The project has an active community on the Discord.
Participate
Developers, researchers, and practitioners interested in group cognition and narrative infrastructure are welcome.