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Reality Drift Ontology: Concepts, Operators, and Relations

A collection of core ontology documents from the Reality Drift framework, serving as a reference hub for the framework’s foundational concepts, structures, and terminology.

These papers define the entities, relationships, operators, transformation layers, and representation structures that make up the internal architecture of Reality Drift. The collection turns the framework from a set of concepts into a structured system for mapping how representations lose alignment with underlying reality.

The ontology centers on concepts such as Reality Drift, Semantic Fidelity, Semantic Entropy, Synthetic Realness, Filter Fatigue, Optimization Trap, Feedback From Reality, Abstraction Layers, Proxy, Representation, and Underlying Reality. These are treated as connected entities within a larger causal system.

Part I: Core Ontology

Reality Drift Ontology: Core Specification (PDF)
Defines the core entities and directed relationships across the Reality Drift framework, including Reality Drift, Semantic Fidelity, Semantic Entropy, Optimization Trap, Synthetic Realness, Filter Fatigue, Reality Alignment, Coherence, Compression, Feedback From Reality, Abstraction Layers, Proxy, Signal, Representation, and Underlying Reality.

Reality Drift Relationship Graph: Directed Causal Structure Across Core Concepts (PDF)
Maps the framework as an explicit graph of causal and structural relationships. Includes the core drift chain, semantic degradation chain, representation chain, feedback and correction loop, coherence and masking dynamics, optimization dynamics, cognitive effects, and terminal conditions.

Part II: Operators and Transformations

Reality Drift Operator Library: Core Transformations Across Representational Systems (PDF)
Defines the core transformations that drive drift across systems, including Optimization, Abstraction Layering, Semantic Compression, Representation Substitution, Feedback Weakening, Coherence Stabilization, Signal Filtering, Constraint Relaxation, Reinforcement Looping, Synthetic Signal Injection, Temporal Compression, Scaling Abstraction, Proxy Substitution, Drift Amplification, and Grounding Reintroduction.

Part III: Representation Stack

The Representation Stack: A Model of How Reality Becomes Measurable, Optimized, and Interpreted (PDF)
Introduces the Representation Stack as a model for how reality becomes transformed into measurements, metrics, optimization targets, representations, and narratives. The document explains how systems can keep functioning while the thing they operate on becomes increasingly distant from underlying reality.

The Representation Stack Schema: A Layered Specification of Transformation from Reality to Representation (PDF)
Provides a more formal schema of the Representation Stack, showing what each layer does, what it loses, how it distorts, and where error enters. The schema moves from Layer 0 Reality through Measurement, Metrics, Optimization, Representation, and Narrative.

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