Representation sufficiency is investigated by specifying distinctions to preserve and permitted collapses. Unless a stronger result is established, sufficiency is inquiry-relative.
The Autorite series follows this idea through distinctions between present state, realized history and specified prediction tasks.
Autorite
An open-ended research program on representation, history, preservation and reachability.
ActiveAutorite: question before architecture
When does an architecture become an explanation? Autorite’s approach to questions, scope and testable claims.
PublishedWhat does a system preserve as it changes?
Autorite series · 1/4 · Question. Distinguishing the same state, the same history and the same system.
PublishedFrom identity to criteria: Autorite’s philosophy
Autorite series · 2/4 · Philosophy. Revisable distinctions, relational questions and preserving the unknown.
PublishedFrom a question to a testable investigation
Autorite series · 3/4 · Method. Scope, comparisons, predeclared decisions and traceable records.
PublishedWhen does history help? The RP002A application
Autorite series · 4/4 · Application. Three synthetic worlds, seven comparisons and the completed study’s limits.
PublishedAutorite: question, philosophy, method, application
A four-chapter reading series, from a changing system to an investigation that tests the question.
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A memory form can be examined through the historical distinctions it represents.
Representation sufficiency depends on the inquiry or action it serves.
Which distinctions in realized history must survive is a representation question.
A representation can be assessed by whether it preserves chosen distinctions.
Relational information can be among the distinctions a representation must preserve.