In response to disequilibrium either within an agent's own cognitive organization or between the agent's cognitive state and other internal dynamics, a person's current frame of mind can undergo a phase change and recalibrate to rectify the disequilibrium.

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• "When agents formulate a prior intention, the establishment of second-order contextual constraints dissipates the disequilibrium by reorganizing a more complex region of cognitive and affective space."concept0.809
  Load-bearing characterization of how prior intention forms as phase transition in cognitive dynamics; core mechanism of action.
• Agents perceive by minimizing variational free energy to ensure model consistency with past observations and act by minimizing expected free energy to make future sensations consistent with preferences.claim0.792
  Formalization of perception-action cycle integrating inference and decision-making.
• Human cognition evolved to detect agency in medium-sized objects at medium speeds in 3D space, limiting recognition of intelligence in unfamiliar substrates.claim0.778
• Contemplative practice progressively opacifies this constraint by developing a model of the agent's own QRF dynamics, revealing the partition as a contingent modelling choice rather than a given feature of reality.claim0.777
  Mechanism of contemplative training.
• Formulating a prior intention constitutes a catastrophic bifurcation—a phase change in cognitive organization—analogous to Bénard cell emergence.hypothesis0.775
• We hypothesize that this rescaling of the problem-solving search process is intrinsic to transitions in individuality.hypothesis0.773
  Hypothesis about chunking and ETIs.
• Scaling intelligence via expansion of cognitive boundaries through inclusion of others' stress-reduction in one's own homeostatic loops.claim0.771
  Central thesis: expanding an agent's sensors and goals outward to include others' states creates bidirectional feedback loop that scales intelligence and increases compassion.
• The recognition of agency outside oneself and the progressive inclusion of their states in one's own homeostatic stress-reduction loops is a bidirectional feedback loop that leads to the scaling of intelligence and increases in practical compassion.claim0.771
  Describes the mechanism linking compassion and intelligence.