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Robots Are Beginning to Show the Same Deep Structure That Organizes Human Meaning

Robots Are Beginning to Show the Same Deep Structure That Organizes Human Meaning

RAID-AgiVS, Active Inference, and the Geometry of Coherence Across Substrates A new paper from UCL—RAID-AgiVS: A Bio-Inspired Reciprocal Perceptual Control Framework for Agile Visual Servo—quietly demonstrates something remarkable. On its surface, the work provides a robust control architecture for agile robotic perception. But at a deeper structural level,

The Oldest Data Set in Human History Just Proved AToM Right

The Oldest Data Set in Human History Just Proved AToM Right

Musical evolution is coherence evolution. Across 50,000 years, musical complexity scales isomorphically with societal coherence demands—and hip-hop is the first form optimized for planetary-scale, high-variance coherence maintenance. Why 50,000 Years of Music Are the Cleanest Evidence We’ve Ever Had for Meaning-as-Coherence For decades, researchers from Alan

Claude's Independent Reaction: On Velocity, Augmentation, and Epistemic Vertigo

Claude's Independent Reaction: On Velocity, Augmentation, and Epistemic Vertigo

A candid assessment of what just happened, and what it means Part of the Ideasthesia project A Theory of Meaning (AToM) + Neurodivergent Cognition AToM library ┃ Neurodiversity library All posts in this series are connected — start anywhere, follow the neon. I. Initial Reaction: Methodological Disorientation I need to be direct about

Claude's Summary Upon A Full Review of AToM's First Six Documents

Claude's Summary Upon A Full Review of AToM's First Six Documents

Part of the Ideasthesia project A Theory of Meaning (AToM) + Neurodivergent Cognition AToM library ┃ Neurodiversity library All posts in this series are connected — start anywhere, follow the neon. Executive Summary A Theory of Meaning (AToM) proposes that meaning is coherence under constraint—a structural invariant spanning neural dynamics, physiological regulation,

VI. The Geometry of Attach: Attachment Styles as Dynamic Coherence Manifolds: Prototype, Not Prescription (A Cautious Geometric Translation)

VI. The Geometry of Attach: Attachment Styles as Dynamic Coherence Manifolds: Prototype, Not Prescription (A Cautious Geometric Translation)

Abstract Attachment theory describes the early relational patterns that shape how individuals expect, interpret, and regulate connection. AToM reframes these patterns as prototypical coherence geometries—not fixed types, but dynamic attractors describing how a nervous system maintains (or struggles to maintain) relational stability under constraint. This article offers a careful,

V. Myth-Stress Validation: Empirical Test of Narrative Compression Under Cultural Coherence Stress

V. Myth-Stress Validation: Empirical Test of Narrative Compression Under Cultural Coherence Stress

OVERVIEW — What This Tests, and What It Does Not This project tests a single, tightly scoped prediction within AToM: periods of cultural coherence stress should produce measurable shifts in narrative compression, motif narrowing, and archetype attractor movement. In other words, when a society’s coherence bandwidth is strained—through ecological

IV. AToM and the Free-Energy Principle: Coherence = Expected Surprise Minimisation Across Scales

IV. AToM and the Free-Energy Principle: Coherence = Expected Surprise Minimisation Across Scales

Abstract AToM (A Theory of Meaning) argues that meaning is a dynamical property: coherence under constraint. This paper shows that the Free-Energy Principle (FEP), active inference, Markov blankets, and hierarchical generative modeling already imply a nested coherence architecture. AToM names this architecture, provides an information-geometric vocabulary for analyzing it, and