- Active inference
- The continuous process by which a node minimises ΔF, either by updating its model to fit the world (perception, learning) or by acting on the world to fit its model (action).
- Aligned executive effector
- A node that has recognised its outward transmission as a determinant of other nodes' experience and takes responsibility for it: transmitting order rather than noise.
- Aligned node
- A human whose aperture runs transparent: narrow when precision is needed, wide when expansion is needed, never mistaken for the whole, anchored in the substrate.
- Anendophasia
- Absence of an internal acoustic monologue. The non-verbal node architecture (§3.5).
- Aperture
- The localised biological mechanism that slices the worldline and filters the field into a compressed 3D rendering so that the organism can act. Bi-directional. Adjustable in width.
- Apophatic audit
- The procedure of asking who is aware of this? of any object in awareness, including the narrator, and not answering in words (§3.4).
- Block universe
- Spacetime considered as a single fully extended structure in which all worldlines are embedded.
- Bottom-up telemetry
- Raw sensory data arriving across the blanket from the field.
- Chapel Perilous
- (Angel Tech.) The void reached when a rigid worldview collapses; in the Framework, a spike of ΔF without an anchor (§2.2).
- Coupled blankets
- The temporary shared perceptual network formed when two nodes interact; one node's action is the other's sensation (§5.2).
- Criticality
- The phase-transition zone between order (rigid top-down control) and chaos (uncompressed flooding) at which the aligned node operates (§3.2).
- Default mode network (DMN)
- The brain network associated with the ego structure and the suppression of entropy; relaxed by classic psychedelics.
- Dimensional reduction
- The compression performed by the aperture: high-dimensional input projected onto a lower-dimensional interface.
- Dual-perspective mode
- Running the executive layer (3D/4D interface) and the witnessing layer (0D substrate) simultaneously (§3.2).
- Endophasia
- Presence of an internal acoustic monologue. The verbal node architecture (§3.5).
- Entropy multiplier / transducer
- Two conversions of organised energy: into amplified noise (unaligned) or into coherent, lower-amplitude order (aligned) (§6.3).
- Fluid aperture
- The capacity to narrow and widen aperture width deliberately, returning to baseline without residue (§3.3).
- Flatland paradox
- The error of spending all metabolic energy on the higher-dimensional map while neglecting local coordinates; spiritual bypassing (§4.1).
- Ground truth
- What is actually arriving across the blanket before defensive priors distort it.
- Holographic principle
- The result that all the information inside a volume of space can be encoded on its lower-dimensional boundary; with string theory, the Framework's multidimensional physics (§2.1).
- Information geometry
- The treatment of probability distributions as points on a smooth statistical manifold, with distances between belief states measured by metrics such as Fisher information; the Framework's mathematical language (§2.1).
- Interface (ego interface)
- The rendered 3D scene including the located self and, where present, the narrator. A rendering, not the witness.
- Macro-manifold
- The infinite higher-dimensional universe in which all worldlines are embedded; the physical landscape (§2.1).
- Markov blanket
- The statistical boundary between a node's internal states and the field, crossed inward by sensation and outward by action. From Karl Friston's free energy principle (§2.1).
- Mirror
- Any instrument that reflects the node's position back to it (book, teacher, interface, this manual). Correct use: see the position clearly, then return to the room (§4.3, Appendix C).
- Negentropy
- Organised, low-entropy energy drawn in from the environment to maintain structure (Schrödinger).
- Node
- Any living system with a Markov blanket and an aperture; used in this manual mainly for humans, animals and plants.
- Opacity
- The felt density of an interface running high internal noise: defensive narratives, predictive panic, maintenance of a false sovereign identity (§5.4).
- Persistence effect
- The continuation of an interaction's effect in a node's updated priors after the interaction ends: hysteresis (friction) or residual wave (coherence) (§5.3).
- Phase coherence / phase locking
- The state of two coupled nodes whose blankets have temporarily merged into one harmonised feedback loop (Scenario A).
- Precision weighting
- The relative weight the model gives to top-down priors versus bottom-up telemetry; the primary dial adjusted by aperture procedures and by chemical modulators.
- Qualia
- The rendered texture of experience: the local output of incoming telemetry passing through the aperture.
- REBUS
- "Relaxed beliefs under psychedelics" (Carhart-Harris and Friston): the model in which psychedelics unweight top-down priors.
- String theory
- The physics in which the fundamental constituents of the universe are higher-dimensional vibrating strings; supplies the Framework's higher-dimensional landscape, the macro-manifold (§2.1).
- Substrate (0D)
- The unconditioned baseline awareness that witnesses the rendered interface and is not itself a rendering. Shared across all nodes.
- Top-down priors
- The model's expectations projected onto incoming data. Compress and speed action; when defended rather than updated, generate friction.
- Transparency
- The felt state of an interface with low internal noise: data passes through unrefracted, other nodes register safety, metabolic cost is minimal (§5.4).
- Variational free energy ΔF
- Prediction error: divergence between expectation and telemetry. The working measure of internal friction throughout this manual. From Karl Friston's free energy principle (§2.1).
- Worldline
- The continuous, static 4D trajectory of an organism through spacetime. The physical body is the worldline.