The Theory
Intelligence, Representation, and What Artifacts Actually Do.
False Depth
A sophisticated representation can carry the visible signs of insight without demonstrating the operation that originally gave those signs force. TORC begins by separating signal from operation.
Frozen Consciousness
An artifact is not conscious. What survives is structure produced by cognition: relations, constraints, transformations and consequences that another mind can reconstruct and test.
Two Coordinates
Operational Order asks what the artifact accomplished with representation. Cognitive Magnitude asks how much structured cognition, and in what configuration, was demonstrated in carrying it out.
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