How Minds Resolve

A cognitive-science-facing entry ramp into Universal Collapse Theory. Rather than proposing a new mechanism of cognition, this paper names an operative layer most frameworks leave unstated: how an individual mind enters a framework, tests it under feedback, and stabilizes a position into the next cycle. It introduces the Faith–Reason–Logic–Belief (FRLB) cycle — four functional roles by which resolution proceeds: Faith, the cycle-relative starting trust; Reason, recursive refinement; Logic, coherence and update constraint; and Belief, resolved commitment and retained record.

The paper distinguishes two operative modes — a generative loop, in which the carried-forward commitment remains revisable, and a supplanted loop, in which revisability has been revoked while inquiry retains its appearance. It grounds the cycle across five registers of resolution (perception, learning and development, therapeutic change, scientific inquiry, and everyday disagreement), positions FRLB relative to predictive processing, Bayesian conditionalization, and Peircean inquiry, supplies a four-question diagnostic, and maps the four roles onto the kernel loci Kₜ, Cᴷₜ, Rₜ, and U. It carries into the mind register the biological pattern named in Biological Faith Systems and formalized in WP03, and draws its update-failure criteria from the Update Integrity Standard.

What this paper does not claim. The paper does not propose a new mechanism of cognition. It names an operative layer that most frameworks leave unstated and positions it relative to existing accounts — predictive processing, Bayesian conditionalization, and Peircean inquiry — rather than displacing them.

Keywords: FRLB cycle; belief revision; predictive processing; epistemic trust; interpretive bridge.