The Afferent Gnosis Model — Self-Knowledge Without Self-Control
Alexander Parnell · VektorGeist · 2026-08-13 · preprint, not peer reviewed
A machine's self-model must be powerless: it observes upward and can change nothing. Powerlessness is what makes the report trustworthy, and — the second finding — what makes a whole class of failure visible at all, because from inside a system a dead safeguard and a permissive one are the same observation.
Read the paper — 10.5281/zenodo.21613153
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