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The Steps We Can’t Skip: Psychological Alignment in Children, AI, and Ourselves

“Well, at the heart of this story is a question about what happens when we disconnect from the truth… the Soviet system was essentially an enormous monument to the useful lie.” “They lied to each other, they lied to the people above them, they lied to the people below them… Sooner or later that debt is paid.” --As Craig Mazin wrote for Chernobyl , Valery Legasov (via HBO’s   1:23:45 ) You do not own truth. You align with it … The one who walks toward truth may never reach it fully. But in walking, they become more real. — Adeel   Ahmed   Khan (?) I. Prelude: The Suggestion and the Thread The future may depend on one thing: knowing when to take a suggestion. This isn’t just a matter of choosing between influence or independence. It’s about alignment—an ongoing process of sorting signals, of listening without surrendering, of responding without becoming reactive. Our subconscious suggests directions all the time. So does the world. So do the people ...

The Shape of Perception in Four Parts: Part II

This model is not intended as a scientific measurement, but as a symbolic framework for thinking about how perception functions structurally and recursively. Like a compass, it is meant to orient, not prescribe. This is a conceptual model, not an empirical one—it represents a lived and reflective understanding of perception, using structure to surface what is often invisible. The Symbolic Compass Model: A Living Equation of Perception We carry our perceptions like a box—not just around us, but in front of us—casting its contents outward. Not a cage, though it can feel like one. Not a shelter, though it often protects us. More like a box compass: a structured container with a void at the center, pointing not north, but inward. And outward. A loop of meaning. This compass doesn’t spin freely. It’s calibrated by experience, by resistance, by reflection, by what we’ve absorbed and how long we’ve held it. This compass does not merely help us receive—its very shape defines the sh...

The Common Harmonic Ground: Morality in Myth and Why the Loop is Not Neutral

A reflection between Parts II and III of The Shape of Perception While writing this post, I’ve been reading the “Aria and Diverse Variations” section of Gödel, Escher, Bach for the first time. My process is that of a student navigating strange loops — absorbing, resisting, and reflecting in real time. As I read, my compass and projection help me make meaning. This post is an artifact of that ongoing navigation: an attempt to coordinate what I read with what I live. A loop unto itself. I. The Shared Story In one of the more layered moments of Gödel, Escher, Bach , Achilles and the Tortoise share a dialogue where the Tortoise tells a story about a clever Count who evades justice. Just as the tale ends, a policeman enters and arrests the Tortoise. It's a classic Hofstadterian move: a recursion folding the story inward, where fiction and reality loop into one another. But what’s often missed is how differently the two characters respond. Achilles pauses, reflects, and se...

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