Cognitive Drift (Definition)
Cognitive Drift explains how cognition stays active and adaptive while gradually losing alignment with reality through mediated and compressed representations.
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Core Concepts
Definitions and explanations of the central concepts within the Reality Drift framework, including optimization, representation, meaning, cognition, feedback, and constraint.
The Drift Principle (Definition)
The Drift Principle explains how systems remain functional while losing alignment with reality as compression and optimization outpace constraint.
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Semantic Fidelity (Definition)
Semantic Fidelity explains how meaning changes or degrades as information moves through compression, retrieval, generation, and transformation.
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