Cognition & perception
How attention, memory, judgment, and imagination construct the worlds we experience.
Independent research & product studio
Technology for
the inner frontier.
CognitiveForest explores cognition, consciousness, psi phenomena, human potential, and the technologies that shape them.
I / The premise
The mind remains our most intimate mystery—and one of our least complete maps.
CognitiveForest is a place for questions that are important, strange, difficult to measure, or simply too interesting to ignore.
We approach them through technology, structured experimentation, lived experience, and a willingness to distinguish clearly between what is known, what is suspected, and what remains open.
II / Areas of inquiry
Consciousness & inner experience
The textures of subjective life—and the tools that might help us observe them more carefully.
Psi & extended capacities
Structured, open-minded ways to explore experiences that sit beyond familiar explanatory boundaries.
Technology & human agency
Products that strengthen curiosity, creativity, connection, and our ability to act with intention.
III / From the studio
Ideas become more useful when they become tangible.
Our products are both finished experiences and working instruments: ways to explore a question, encounter real behavior, and learn in public.
Play. Observe. Repeat.
A collection of short daily games inspired by remote viewing, precognition, micro-PK, and telepathy protocols.
Visit Psi GamesIV / Working principles
Open to the extraordinary. Precise about the evidence.
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Open inquiry
Unusual questions deserve thoughtful investigation.
02
Evidence with humility
Findings, hypotheses, experiences, and speculation are not the same thing.
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Build to learn
Working tools reveal questions that abstract discussion misses.
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Human agency
Technology should expand our ability to perceive, create, connect, and choose.
V / Collaboration
Some questions become products. Others become partnerships.
CognitiveForest works selectively with early-stage companies and ambitious teams that need senior product judgment, analytical depth, and hands-on technical execution.
How we can work togetherFounded by Charles Hornbaker
Former Apple data scientist and product builder with a background spanning computational science, business, and service in the Marine Corps. Drawn to difficult terrain—technical and otherwise.
About Charles