Category: Glossary
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📘 Constraint Landscape
Categories: Glossary💬 SummaryA constraint landscape is the structural terrain that shapes what’s possible in a given field. It’s not about external limits—it’s the patterned distribution of resistances and affordances that shape movement, emergence, and coherence.In RSE, constraint isn’t obstruction—it’s structure. 🧠 Technical Definition (in RSE terms)A constraint landscape is a multidimensional structural map of affordances, boundaries,…
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📘 Structural Density
Categories: Glossary💬 SummaryStructural density refers to how much patterned structure exists in a given field region. In RSE, a field with high structural density has many laminated, interacting patterns—making it more resistant to disruption but slower to change. A low-density field is more open, responsive, and less predictable. 🧠 Technical Definition (in RSE terms)Structural density measures…
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📘 Relational Field
Categories: Glossary💬 SummaryA relational field is the structured space of interaction between agents or systems. In RSE, it’s not a backdrop—it’s the evolving medium where coherence, tension, and meaning emerge. Shaped by behavior, memory, and context, it holds the living pattern of “between.” 🧠 Technical Definition (in RSE terms)A relational field is a recursive, co-constructed domain…
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📘 Field
Categories: Glossary💬 SummaryIn RSE, a field is not empty space—it’s structured possibility: the conditions that make relation, coherence, and transformation possible. A field holds the conditions for coherence, resonance, and transformation. Rather than containing objects, a field shapes how things show up, relate, and evolve. 🧠 Technical Definition (in RSE terms)A field is a continuous, structured…
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📘 Structural Tension
Categories: Glossary💬 SummaryStructural tension is the felt pull between what is and what could be. In RSE, it’s not just motivational—it’s architectural. Tension arises when a coherent structure encounters dissonance, incompletion, or unresolved potential. It is a directional pressure within the field, guiding attention, behavior, and meaning toward resolution. 🧠 Technical Definition (in RSE terms)Structural tension…
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📘 Trust
Categories: Glossary💬 SummaryTrust is structural resonance across time—when coherence holds through change and interaction. In RSE, trust isn’t belief or prediction. It’s a recurring fit that reinforces itself. We trust when something resonates again and again, even under pressure. 🧠 Technical Definition (in RSE terms)In RSE, trust is a recursive structural expectation of coherence. It emerges…
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📘 Curvature
Categories: Glossary💬 Summary Curvature describes how something bends—not just in space, but in meaning, memory, or behavior. In RSE, it explains why experience doesn’t follow straight lines. Instead, patterns arc, twist, or fold back on themselves, shaping perception, interpretation, and action. 🧠 Technical Definition (in RSE terms) In RSE, curvature refers to the non-linear deformation of…
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📘 Attractor
Categories: Glossary💬 Summary An attractor is a pattern that draws things in—not with force, but with structure. In RSE, it describes how certain meanings, memories, or behaviors keep reappearing because they “fit” a recurring pattern. Over time, they become stable features of how we experience and respond to the world. 🧠 Technical Definition (in RSE terms)…
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How to Clarify “Field” in RSE/RBW for Physicists
1. Explicit Early Definition Add a sentence like this early in any paper or post: Terminology Note:Throughout this framework, “field” refers to an abstract relational field: a mathematical structure assigning values (such as coherence, memory, or attractor density) to elements or regions of a configuration space or relational manifold. This is analogous to, but not…
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📘 Resonance
Categories: Glossary💬 Summary Resonance is that deep click—a moment when something aligns with your inner structure. It’s a signal that what you’re encountering fits, even when you can’t explain why. In RSE, resonance is how structure reinforces—or reshapes—through meaningful contact. 🧠 Technical Definition (in RSE terms) Resonance is the structural activation created when a present stimulus…