Topics — What a work is about. Nucleation holds whatever reading the owner files here, whether or not an Anthology of the SOTA topic could also hold it; instruction for ML practice belongs to the anthology (ADR-048). The words are seeded from the clusters the reading-time triage of 2026-09-25 found, and grow by decision.
Psychopathology and treatment — what a mental disorder is and how psychological treatment changes it — medical models of illness (biomedical, biopsychosocial, network), the philosophy of psychiatry, functional and transdiagnostic accounts of psychopathology such as experiential avoidance and psychological flexibility, and psychotherapies and their mechanisms of change (ADR-021).
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| # | Title | Summary | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| CLAIM-156 v3 | Mindfulness integrates a population of interests by changing which of them may act, and not only by changing what they value: noticing an impulse as an impulse suspends the step from its momentary dominance to its control of action, and that step needs no change in the discount curves | The record’s own conjecture, made in answer to the owner’s prompt of 2026-10-11. It places mindfulness among CLAIM-027’s conditions of efficacy (suspension, accessibility), so it is a second individual-scale instance of that thesis. The one direct study read as summarised (LIT-906) points the other way, and the claim says so. It does not say mindfulness never changes valuation. | Proposed |
| CLAIM-339 v3 | A judgement–observation loop cut off from action loses one route for evidence it did not select, and the free-energy principle’s reason for minimizing surprise, that a persisting system must keep its states in bounds, needs action on the world, though a loop can confirm itself with action available too | The assistant’s, A1 of the exchange of 2026-10-16, narrowed at A4. Friston et al. (2010) say active sampling is “mandated by ergodic arguments based on the very existence of adaptive agents”, and the enactive account puts a system’s own norms in its capacity to act against tendencies toward its viability boundary. Kübler and Birbaumer’s extinction hypothesis is the empirical form. As first filed it said a loop without action has a self-confirming minimum. NOTE-766 shows the minimum arises with action available, so the counter now claims only that losing action removes one source of evidence the loop did not select. CLAIM-342 answers it. | Active |
| CLAIM-342 v3 | What keeps a judgement–observation loop from confirming itself is evidence whose arrival or scoring does not pass through the interpretation it tests; action is one source of such evidence, not a necessary one, and a loop that selects its own evidence can lock in with action available | The assistant’s synthesis, A3 and A4 of the exchange of 2026-10-16, filed at the owner’s request at U5. Three results the record already holds. CLAIM-330: capture in the operator model needs both arrows of CLAIM-297’s circuit, and scoring operators independently of the dominant interpretation removes it. CLAIM-141: a loop always has a distributional fixed point, so what binds it is a constraint that prescribes marginals. THEORY-285 (NOTE-766): an active-inference agent locks in with action available, because its own sampling policy withholds the evidence that would correct it. The claim does not say action is unimportant, only that it is not what does the anchoring. | Active |
| CLAIM-349 v6 | An organization’s access to a signal, the signal’s authority over action, and action on it are separable, and adaptive regulation keeps the first while making the second conditional on evidence; overcontrol, which buys freedom from harmful acts by cutting access or making inhibition unconditional, is a maladaptive regime and not more control, so flexibility is a context-sensitive property of maintained influence relations, not of how much is inhibited | The owner’s idea, U42 of the exchange of 2026-10-17, on A41’s line that an organization “could become extremely resistant to internal changes while losing its capacity to learn, correct errors, or act at all”: “useful connections to the ACT and DBT frameworks here, which provide us with accounts/ontologies of maladaption and productive flexibility”. In A42’s form: recognizing a signal, granting it authority and acting on it are three steps; ACT’s defusion is a mechanism for CLAIM-156’s decoupling; DBT adds bounded stabilization before correction; RO-DBT names overcontrol as maladaptive. The sharp edge: these are analogies from human treatment, the organizational classes are A42’s proposals, not diagnoses, and RO-DBT’s own evidence is “promising but not definitive”. | Active |
| CLAIM-446 v7 | Some persistent anxiety may be governance-maintained rather than belief-maintained: anticipated threat grants defensive processes authority over action, attention and evidence acquisition; under the avoidance that authority selects, the hypotheses that the situation is dangerous and that it is safe predict the same observation, so repeated safety need not correct the threat estimate; relief reinforces the defense without being evidence of danger; and the regime can outlast a corrected belief, its pathology, where present, being defensive authority insensitive to corrective evidence at avoidable cost | The owner’s, 2026-10-23, quoting “A governance prior can become self-protecting by reducing the access of the processes most likely to provide evidence against it”: “I think you may have inadvertently landed on a formalization of anxiety”. Worked through the same day (workbench entry of 2026-10-24, U14–U15). A candidate account of avoidance-maintained anxiety, not of anxiety in general, filed as a candidate answer to QUESTION-045. Its evidence is model-level and adjacent; nothing here measures authority in patients. | Proposed |