Mind · Reasoning
Summarize
Lossy compression preserving salience
Definition
Mechanism
The cognitive process of Compressing a large Datum or Artifact into a smaller Summary while preserving its most high-Value (salient) information. Distinct from Translate, which preserves the full semantic scope. It is a lossy transformation.
Invariants
- Compression: Output size < Input size
- Salience: Information Density(Output) > Information Density(Input)
- Fidelity: No new information added (No hallucination)
Risks
Failure modes
None stated.
Relationships
Builds on
Accepts
Infrastructure
Raw unit of fact
References
Yields
Infrastructure
Condensed information
Used by
Composes with
Agent that architects mechanistic design proposals
References
Make a hard idea clearer for a named reader while keeping every distinction it depends on
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