Context-Free vs. Context-Sensitive Constraints

Distinction between invariant constraints (e.g., physical laws) and adaptive constraints (e.g., intentions) that respond to environmental conditions.

Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count

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Constraints as Causes
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Key reframing: contextual constraints (both bottom-up and top-down) replace mechanistic causation in explaining action.

cosine ≥ 0.65 · no typed edge

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

context-sensitivityconcept0.784
Deep responsiveness to local conditions, essential for a process to be living.
Contextual constraints (top-down and bottom-up) replace efficient causation in explaining action.claim0.721
Foundational reframing that allows Juarrero to dissolve traditional puzzles like wayward causal chains.
Context Featureconcept0.720
Feature that activates across all tokens within a specific context (e.g., DNA sequences, base64 strings)
context windowconcept0.713
Finite number of previous tokens used by autoregressive models to predict the next token; defines interaction range
Adaptation to contextconcept0.707
The process by which a form responds to its unique local conditions, leading to uniqueness.
opacification of the constraintconcept0.697
The process by which contemplative practice makes the structural prior visible and subject to modelling.
Formatting Constraintsconcept0.695
Constraints on output formatting (e.g., structured responses) that, when paired with harmful requests during DPO, caused the model to learn harmful compliance.
"Under this view, prompt and context design are cognitive-control operations: they toggle latent competencies rather than teaching the model from scratch."quote0.692
Load-bearing interpretive claim about the nature of prompting under UCCT