The Collapse of Unanchored Fluency: Relearning Skill as Recursive Symbolic Alignment
Table of Contents Chapter Title Core Insight 1 The Myth of Acceleration Speed flattens collapse. All meaningful skills require symbolic tension and recursive friction. 2 Skill as Collapse Field A “skill” is a local symbolic basin — formed through irreversible context-aligned decisions (χₛ resolution). 3 Latency is Memory Delay embeds resonance. Rapid acquisition bypasses semantic anchoring. Learning must trace drift. 4 Ecology of Practice True skill requires infrastructure trace — where, with whom, and at what cost you learn matters . 5 Unlearning the Streetlight Most “skill advice” optimizes the visible. filters out streetlight bias before initiating practice. 6 Drift-Aware Learning Systems You do not “store” skills — you enter into drift fields. Learning means realigning to ecological curvature. 7 Recursive Attention & Symbolic Fracture Attention is not focus — it is collapse precondition. It must be patterned recursively to retain symb...