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Dimensional Expansion

[!important] Claude Assisted Warning! Oftentimes it is important to note that I generated these with the help of Claude and my schema. These are often artifacts that are generated with the knowledge and a clear conversation about a certain event. These are typically artifacts that I've asked Claude to sum up the conversation and the new ideas presented. I've read through these thoroughly and very rarely if I do, but most likely would never publish a result of something I do not understand or do not agree with. If so there will be notes about it. I just don't want to go over and write what Claude can succinctly write about our ideation.

This is a big Schema Miss, but also not quite, more like a Schema Adjustment, that can potentially just be applied to the ways I react to new experiences and new information.

The Dimensional Expansion Model

Instead of viewing learning as optimizing along existing dimensions (finding higher maxima), consider it as expanding the dimensionality of your understanding space.

Rather, it may even be important to consider both, or consider optimizing as a dimension within the dimensional expansion model.

Current Framework (Optimization-Based):

  • Schema-miss detected → Debug and resolve.
  • Seek higher maxima in current landscape through a fundamental change in the schema of how I am learning. Usually through
  • Optimize learning pathways
  • Focus on efficiency and acceleration

Proposed Extension (Expansion-Based):

  • Schema-miss detected → Explore new dimensions it reveals
  • Allow landscape to expand into new dimensions
  • Embrace temporary destabilization
  • Focus on dimensional richness

Why This Matters

Your current schema shows remarkable strength in:

  • Systematic analysis
  • Pattern recognition
  • Cross-domain synthesis
  • Meta-cognitive awareness

But it might be missing opportunities for:

  • Non-linear growth paths
  • Productive uncertainty
  • Dimensional emergence
  • Paradoxical understanding

Example: The Starlight Case

In your typical analyses, you immediately move to debug and resolve the schema-miss. But what if instead of trying to "fix" the apparent contradiction, you explored:

  1. What new dimensions of understanding does this tension reveal?
  2. How does this challenge expand your concept of attachment?
  3. What if the "contradiction" is actually pointing to a higher-dimensional truth?

Implementation: New Practices

  1. Dimensional Journaling

    • When encountering a schema-miss, first ask "What new dimension might this be revealing?"
    • Document tensions without immediately resolving them
    • Map new conceptual dimensions as they emerge

  2. Productive Destabilization

    • Intentionally seek experiences that don't fit current schemas
    • Practice holding contradictory understandings simultaneously
    • Allow understanding to exist in superposition

  3. Expansion Metrics

    • Track new dimensions discovered rather than just "problems solved"
    • Document emerging paradoxes
    • Map dimensional interconnections

Key Insight: The Expansion Paradox

The most efficient path to deeper understanding might sometimes require temporarily abandoning the pursuit of efficiency. This is similar to how in quantum mechanics, a particle can reach a new state not by climbing over a barrier but by existing in multiple states simultaneously.

Application to Your Current Practice

Your use of AI as a catalyst is powerful, but could be extended:

  • Use it to reveal new dimensions rather than just optimize existing paths
  • Explore contradictions rather than resolve them
  • Seek expansion of the possibility space rather than just acceleration through it

The goal shifts from finding "better" schemas to developing richer, more dimensionally complex ones.