The Five Tasks Model of Cognition DOI defines a theoretical framework in which cognition across biological and artificial systems is organized around five irreducible domains of informational control. Within this framework, organisms detect informational events DOI, structure them into informational tasks DOI through domain recognition, and regulate behavior change (B1→B2) DOI under the constraints of the Energy–Safety–Reproduction (ESR) triad DOI. The model proposes that cognition is not an unlimited collection of processes, but a structured architecture in which environmental variation is interpreted through five recurrent task domains: Binary Environmental Control, Distal Engagement Control, Perception-Shaping Control, Group-Dynamics Control, and Rule-Guided Formalized Symbolic Control. These domains appear in a gated, sequential, and cumulative order DOI, forming the core architecture through which organisms regulate their interaction with the environment. Comparative analysis across more than 1,530 species DOI provides the empirical foundation for this framework. By linking informational events, tasks, controllers, task domains, species groups, and cognitive-behavioral potentials into a single architecture, the Five Tasks Model offers a unified structural account of cognition across evolution, life, and artificial systems.
Sergei A. Frolov (Wed,) studied this question.