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Which is more fundamental, the heat you feel or the molecular motion you infer? Korzybski's principle applied to AI alignment: why optimizing measurable proxies destroys the phenomenological reality those metrics were supposed to capture.
Science is search through hypothesis space. Intelligence prunes; testing provides signal. Synthetic worlds could accelerate the loop.
Abstractions let us reason about complex systems despite our cognitive limits. But some systems resist compression entirely.
How The Call of Asheron uses four archetypal consciousness-types to explore the limits of any single perspective and the necessity of cognitive diversity for perceiving reality.