CP cognition is a phenomenon that can be elaborated using a combination of and modern science concepts and Aristotelian concepts, recognizing that Aristotle's thought is valued and even prestigious in major religious traditions (notably both Christianity and Islam), . The analysis of CP cognition can provide a set of useful distinctions in wider ethical debates, for example those triggered by rapid changes in biotechnology.
The basic idea is that hominins evolved with a capacity to recognize the unseen causes of the behavior of other hominins. The mental states (beliefs, desires, intentions-in-action, plans, volitional-thoughts, memories of perception, memories of thought experience, etc) recognized by folk psychology are mental types, properties of an unseen mental entity that causes hominin behavior. In the terminology of Aristotle, this is a rational psuchos. The innervated bodies of hominins (including a brain made of neurons, that somehow "represents" information about the world with mental states) is a seen entity with behavior, and the behavior is caused by an unseen psyche that is nevertheless reliably cognized by (non-autistic) hominins.
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