Cognitive-Affective Heredity (Gedankenvererbungslehre) is proposed as a conceptual framework for investigating the conscious externalisation, transfer, selective internalisation, and partial integration of cognitive-affective architectures between living persons. Building on Merlin Donald's four-stage model of cognitive evolution (1991) and extending it with a proposed fifth stage — Architectural Cognitive Externalisation — this paper identifies five theoretically grounded dimensions along which cognitive-affective heredity may vary: directionality, selectivity, substance layers, reflexivity, and emergence. The framework is deliberately theoretical; empirical investigation is left to future work. Working Paper v1.0.
Andreas Ehstand (Sat,) studied this question.