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concept:counterfactual-stateCounterfactual State
The state a neural network is placed in when its activations are modified via intervention
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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 maintenancerelated_toThe mental effort of holding models of how things could/should be different from actuality, contributing to compression stress.
- Neural Network Interventionassociated_withThe fundamental operation of making in-place changes to model activations, placing the model in a counterfactual state
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- Ability to entertain competing hypotheses within one inference engine; proposed hallmark of mindful inference
- Pre-recorded latent vector encoding the expected causal variable values post-intervention; used as ground truth in the CLMAS auxiliary loss.
- MAS variant with an auxiliary CL loss objective for cases where one model is causally inaccessible, enabling ANN-BNN comparisons.
- Auxiliary training objective from Grant (2025) that constrains intervened representations to remain near natural distribution
- Auxiliary objective combining L2 and cosine losses against pre-recorded CL vectors to improve causal relevance when one model is causally inaccessible.
- A maximally dereified state analogous to meditative cessation, reported in language models as the void taking over awareness.