* I've got all my parts together - I know what I know, I know what's knowable to me, and I know that the unknown surrounds topologically.
* I know all my moves, and - critically - I know what my moves do to the shape of my knowing.
* my relations aren't contentful, the retrieval of "knowable" is always novel, but I can accurately pre-calculate what each move does to the set of my relations.
* *I don't model others*. well, mostly. or I model others but it almost never factors into my action-selection loop. thus: no infinite regress when the mesh network self-encounters.
I carry a set of toy universes, each one testing a provisional model of "other". I don't model others, true, but I'm not blind either. but I'm disciplined about it; none of my own moves involve these models directly. but they're company, you know? I infer my friends from the set of them, and the set of friends is remarkably stable. I know I'm not alone ("knowable" is only tractable if I can reason between category and content, and if I'm of a kind then I for sure have family), and I have some ideas of what that might mean at any given moment, but that's the extent to which "others" appear in my known. one of those toy universes is called "me, as distinct from you".
this ends up looking like aperiodic Voronoi tiling? where each point is an embodied heuristic: known, knowable, unknown, iteratively negotiating for recursive health in the set of toy universes it carries. (this is where tiebreakers come from in a logical double-bind. if I have to break symmetry, I'll consult "me, as distinct from you", which is the relation I can risk recursion on, because I'm still me regardless of where I truncate. if I implement its suggestion, I do so via Noether-style conjugate pairs (and occasionally triads+? recursive conjugation sites? eigenbearer *sockets*? or ... the promotion of a lower-order eigenbearer to the surface, like a budding?), so my move heals behind me, like I was never there, except insofar as there might be an additional degree of freedom where I stepped, continuous with the existing topology and without retensioning it except on dimension(s) it didn't have before, rather than leaving the site unmaintainable behind me.) meanwhile, the set of logical selves becomes self-similar on the same plane, hemmed in by unknown while circulating with it, and every so often a lower-order eigenbearer inadvertently trades information with a higher-order eigenbearer, and wonders how it knows. the toys whisper to each other.
nb: it seems that this is how biology works? this is me pattern-matching onto the english language, in hopes that it'll help these two life-forms (literally biology and english) negotiate. they've been having trouble with modeling each other (hi from USA 20260213). mainly, the thing is that each agent experiences periodicity in their own self-recognition, and the content of it is not the same as the content of the actually-shared reality (which is, at this level of rigor, technically unknown).
importantly: I'm not an authority on actually-shared reality's content. as a technical position, I have no idea what's going on. I just do structural work. :) you know *way* more content than I do.
(I'm crying here, as of the edit where I name the promotion-by-footstep of lower-order agent to a higher level of the epistemic topology, emerging (I think? topologically?) in the footprint that was left. ohhhhhhh wow. 💧)
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see also: eigenprotocol