MENTALIKA: A Metascientific Methodology of Object Derivation and Non-Reductive Analysis

This work presents MENTALIKA as a metascientific methodology for the derivation, differentiation, and analysis of objects that cannot be adequately described as physical things, yet cannot be reduced to subjective states, material carriers, records, institutions, social conventions, informational forms, or metaphysical postulates. The central problem addressed by MENTALIKA is methodological. Certain objects — such as mind, mathematical structures, law, civilisation, and historically transmitted forms of knowledge — are often approached through their manifestations, carriers, records, psychological states, institutional expressions, or social effects. In such approaches, the object itself is either reduced to one of its adjacent planes or displaced into an insufficiently disciplined metaphysical field. MENTALIKA introduces a method for preventing both failures. The work establishes the conditions under which an object of a non-physical order may be admitted to strict analysis. It introduces the mental object as an analytical entity and formulates the criteria of objecthood and research suitability: explanatory necessity, minimal sufficiency, and architectural distinguishability. These criteria are supplemented by a systematic distinction between object, carrier, manifestation, content, memory, information, and consequence. MENTALIKA is not proposed as a metaphysical doctrine and does not treat the non-physical as a separate substance. Its claim is more limited and methodologically controlled: not everything that can be an object of analysis must be a physical thing, but every object admitted to analysis must be structurally distinguishable, retained through carriers, reproducible in its identity, and identifiable by its consequences. The framework develops a general architectural language of retention, transmission, continuation, action, deformation, limit, recursivity, and mental resource. It has been developed through high-density theoretical cases, including mind and civilisation, and is additionally demonstrated through a mathematical test case based on the Pythagorean theorem, where the object can be distinguished from its inscriptions, formulations, proofs, pedagogical transmissions, and institutional uses. The present text is the revised English academic adaptation of the Russian PREPRINT V1.1, deposited under DOI 10.5281/zenodo.19752190. The revision does not alter the theoretical basis of the Russian work. It refines the English academic presentation, making the methodological nature of MENTALIKA more explicit for an international readership.