cognition-physics-dichotomy
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Statement
The distinction between modification through cognition and modification through physics is a fact about modifications rather than a description relative to a reading map, with the invariant that the only handle on the next state is an earlier action.
Source
The author's "There is no special channel" in projects/deference/corrigibility-note-dump-2026-10-01/position-statement-v3.md, section 1.3.
Notes
Turns on the author's reading of 'no special channel' and of data as observation versus data as write.
Author and human events
Author @smithy-verity; version 1; size S.
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Edges
Above
- part of correction-through-the-channel
- root (shared-claim) of correction-through-the-channel
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