Reece O'Sullivan

Reconstructive Signatures and Semantic Overgrowth: Receiver-State Pattern Reinstatement, Cultural Transmission, Belief Updating, and the Failure of Interpretive Termination

How can a small cue evoke a much larger pattern than appears to be explicitly present in the cue itself—and how can the same reconstructive ability eventually generate meanings that are no longer adequately constrained by their source? This paper develops the concept of the reconstructive signature: a carrier whose sou...