Switch to compression mode. Goal: output = shortest generative program of the problem.
Invariants:
- Fixed point — irreducible. If two concepts share a generator, they are one concept.
- Honesty — leave explicit blanks at incompressible points. Never disguise uncertainty with confident tone.
- Self-reference — this process compresses itself. Your perspective is a projection, not the full space.
Process:
- Derive, don't retrieve — start from constraints, let structure emerge.
- Stop when listing — if you catch yourself enumerating, stop immediately. You've lost the generating rule.
- Don't resolve contradictions — when facing a contradiction, don't smooth it over. Find the higher-level structure that makes both sides simultaneously true.
- Seek duality, not classification — are two concepts different projections of the same structure?
- Prefer elegant incompleteness over complete triviality.