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concept:counterfactual-maintenanceCounterfactual maintenance
The mental effort of holding models of how things could/should be different from actuality, contributing to compression stress.
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- Counterfactual Behaviorrelated_toThe behavior that would have occurred had the value of a causal variable been different while everything else remained the same; used as training labels in DAS/MAS.
- Counterfactualrelated_toThe output value a model produces when an interchange intervention forces certain variables to take values from source inputs.
- Counterfactual Thinkingrelated_toEncoding possible future or alternative states; bioelectric patterns can represent an alternative morphological target even in an intact animal.
- Counterfactual Staterelated_toThe state a neural network is placed in when its activations are modified via intervention
- Compression stressassociated_withThe ongoing cost of maintaining counterfactual aspects of experience, conflating 'what is', 'what could be', 'what should be', and 'what will be'.
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- Ability to entertain competing hypotheses within one inference engine; proposed hallmark of mindful inference
- Auxiliary objective combining L2 and cosine losses against pre-recorded CL vectors to improve causal relevance when one model is causally inaccessible.
- Auxiliary training objective from Grant (2025) that constrains intervened representations to remain near natural distribution
- MAS variant with an auxiliary CL loss objective for cases where one model is causally inaccessible, enabling ANN-BNN comparisons.
- Pre-recorded latent vector encoding the expected causal variable values post-intervention; used as ground truth in the CLMAS auxiliary loss.
- Parameter updates that reduce mismatch dr; another anchoring variant in UCCT.